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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr.
The Honorable Herbert Tucker, Jr.
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| Other authors / contributors: | Tucker, Herbert E., 1915-2007, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts 2003 August 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civic leader and judge Herbert E. Tucker, Jr. was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 30, 1915. Tucker's father was a redcap; his mother died when he was eleven. Graduating from the Boston Latin School, Tucker attended Northeastern School of Law, earning his J.D. degree. After working for the Internal Revenue Service, Tucker went into private practice in 1952. Named assistant attorney general of Massachusetts in 1959, Senator John F. Kennedy appointed Tucker to the civil rights section of his 1960 presidential campaign. Continuing to serve in state government, Tucker was named presiding justice of the Municipal Court of Dorchester in 1974. He retired from public service in 1985 as the presiding justice of the Edgartown District Court. Serving as president of the Boston NAACP, he lectured at numerous area universities and served as chairman of the executive committee of Simmons College since 1969. He received numerous awards. He passed away on March 1, 2007.
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