#cynthia delores tucker

[blackgirlslivingwell]

C. Delores Tucker Warned Us About Gangsta Rap! Your Rap Gods Sold Us Out!

Cynthia Dolores Tucker who went by C. Delores Tucker lived from 1927 to 2005. She was born in Philadelphia to religious Bahamian parents, and she was a civil rights activist who became infamous for her outspoken criticism of gangsta rap in the 1990s. She launched an aggressive campaign against the genre, sparking a feud with some of hip-hop's biggest stars.

[lboogie1906]

Cynthia Delores Tucker (October 4, 1927 – October 12, 2005) was a politician and civil rights, activist. She had a long history of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. From the 1990s onward, she engaged in a campaign against gangsta rap.

Her father Whitfield Nottage emigrated from the Bahamas and acquired a large farm where grew and sold tomatoes to the Campbell Soup Company. Her mother Captilda Nottage was an astute businesswoman who opened a grocery store, and an employment agency, and partnered with a Jewish attorney to help new folks moving up north acquire a home and the money to finance ownership since Black folks moving up from the south and from the Caribbean were not given mortgages by regular banks.

She attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business. She was the recipient of two honorary doctoral degrees from Morris College and California State University Northridge, and for this reason, she is sometimes referred to as “Dr. C. Delores Tucker”.

She became the first African American woman Secretary of State when Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp appointed her Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

She had a long history in the Civil Rights Movement. Her civil activities included participating in the 1965 march in Selma and raising funds for the NAACP. She along with 15 other African American women and men, formed the African American Women for Reproductive Freedom. She was the founder and national chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., having succeeded the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1992. She was responsible for the Governor’s appointment of more women judges and more women and African Americans to boards and commissions than ever before. She led the effort to make Pennsylvania one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. As Chief of Elections of Pennsylvania, she was a leader in instituting voter registration by mail and reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha

[kermitjay]

C. DELORES TUCKER (1927-2005)



C. Delores Tucker at Black Caucus Event in Washington D.C., 1996

Courtesy John Matthew Smith (CC BY-SA 2.0)

C. Delores Tucker is best remembered as a civil rights trailblazer who fought for women of color, and toward the end of her life against profane and misogynist lyrics in hip-hop/ rap music. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 4, 1927, to Bahamian parents Whitfield and Captilda Nottage. Her father was a Baptist minister, and the couple operated a grocery store, an employment agency, and a real estate business in Philadelphia.

Cynthia Delores Nottage, the tenth of eleven children, attended Philadelphia High School for Girls, graduating in 1946. She then attended Temple University, where she studied finance and real estate. She dropped out however, to open an employment agency for southern blacks, who had just arrived in Philadelphia.  In 1951 she married businessman William Tucker, a construction company owner, who grew wealthy in Philadelphia real estate.

A successful realtor herself, by the 1960s she served as an officer in the Philadelphia NAACP. She worked closely with the local branch president Cecil Moore, to end racist practices in the city’s post offices and construction trades.  Tucker gained national prominence, when she led a Philadelphia delegation on the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  By the decade’s end, Tucker’s expertise as a fundraiser for the NAACP, coupled with her Democratic Party affiliation, enabled her to be appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Black Democratic Committee.

Her selection by Philadelphia Mayor James H.J. Tate to serve on the city’s Zoning Commission in 1968, was the first of several prestigious political appointments, including vice chair of the Pennsylvania Democratic Party (1970). In 1971, Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp appointed her Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Under Tucker’s leadership, Pennsylvania became one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, promote voter registration by mail, and to lower the voting age from 21 to 18.

In 1984 Tucker and New York Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm, founded the National Political Congress of Black Women. In 1990, she and 15 other women and men, founded African American Women for Reproductive Freedom. Tucker however, failed to win elective office.  She ran, and lost, in her bid for lieutenant governor in 1978, the U.S. Senate in 1980, and the U.S. House in 1992.

By the 1990s Tucker became a highly vocal opponent of the salacious lyrics and sexual innuendos associated with “gangsta rap,” calling the lyrics of many of these songs “sleazy pornographic smut,” She joined conservative Republican Bill Bennett, in launching a national campaign against major music companies, for supporting and sustaining artists profiting from rap music. Tucker picketed stores that sold rap music. She bought stock in Sony, Time Warner, and other major corporations to protest obnoxious lyrics at their shareholder meetings. In response, she often faced the wrath of these artists including Tupac Shakur, KRS-One, Lil Wayne, and Lil’ Kim, who attacked her in their songs. Tucker filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against the estate of Tupac Shakur, for the lyrics he used in his album All Eyez on Me.

Cynthia Delores Tucker died on October 12, 2005 at a rehabilitation center in Norristown, Pennsylvania. She was 78, and was survived by her husband, William Tucker. The couple had no children.

[lboogiepopworld]

Reposted from @onthisdateinhiphop (@get_regrann) - #OnThisDateInHipHop, we lost Cynthia Delores Tucker. Although she is most known in #HipHop for her stance against "gangsta rap" and her beef with #2pac, #CDeloresTucker was also highly active in the #CivilRightsMovement. Most of you niggas who have the heart to say f*** her wouldn't have had the heart to March in #Selma, Alabama alongside #DrMartinLutherKingJr as she did. In hindsight, she didn't have it all right but she didn't have it all wrong either. 🤷🏾‍♂️ #RIPCDeloresTucker #rap #rapper #90shiphop #90s #90srap #2pac #losangeles #beats #producer #hiphopmusic #lyrics #radio #soundcloud #rapmusic #hiphopculture #cypher #spotify #tidal #rappers #freestyle #tupac https://www.instagram.com/p/B3h-o6jBX7h/?igshid=ig7fo6tp990s

[blackgirlslivingwell]

C. Delores Tucker Was Right About Gangsta Rap - She Warned Us!

Cynthia Dolores Tucker who went by C Delores Tucker lived from 1927 to 2005. She was born in Philadelphia to religious Bahamian parents, and she was a civil rights activist who became infamous for her outspoken criticism of gangsta rap in the 1990's. She launched an aggressive campaign against the genre, sparking a feud with some of hip hop's biggest stars.

[lboogie1906]

Cynthia Delores Tucker (October 4, 1927 – October 12, 2005) was a politician and civil rights, activist. She had a long history of involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. From the 1990s onward, she engaged in a campaign against gangsta rap. She attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. She was the recipient of two honorary doctoral degrees from Morris College and California State University Northridge, and for this reason, she is sometimes referred to as "Dr. C. Delores Tucker". She became the first African American woman Secretary of State when Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp appointed her Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She had a long history in the Civil Rights Movement. Her civil activities included participating in the 1965 march in Selma and raising funds for the NAACP. She along with 15 other African American women and men, formed the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom. She was the convening founder and national chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc., having succeeded the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1992. She was responsible for the Governor's appointment of more women judges and more women and African Americans to boards and commissions than ever before. She led the effort to make Pennsylvania one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. As Chief of Elections of Pennsylvania, she was a leader in instituting voter registration by mail and reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha https://www.instagram.com/p/CjSXiMfOQP-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lboogie1906]

Cynthia Delores Tucker (October 4, 1927 – October 12, 2005) was a politician and civil rights, activist. She had a long history of involvement in the American Civil Rights Movement. From the 1990s onward, she engaged in a campaign against gangsta rap. She attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. Tucker was later the recipient of two honorary doctoral degrees from Morris College and California State University Northridge, and for this reason, she is sometimes referred to as "Dr. C. Delores Tucker". She became the first black female Secretary of State when Pennsylvania Governor Milton Shapp appointed her Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. She had a long history in the Civil Rights Movement. Early on, her civil activities included participating in the 1965 march in Selma, Alabama, and raising funds for the NAACP. She along with 15 other African American women and men, formed the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom. She was the convening founder and national chair of the National Congress of Black Women, Inc. (NCBW), having succeeded the Hon. Shirley Chisholm in 1992. She also was responsible for the Governor's appointment of more women judges and more women and African Americans to boards and commissions than ever before. She also led the effort to make Pennsylvania one of the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment. As Chief of Elections of Pennsylvania, she was a leader in instituting a voter registration by mail and reducing the voting age from 21 to 18 years of age. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphakappaalpha https://www.instagram.com/p/CF8XAMkH6ekkwbSsa6rADbxIlMhIA60ScGCvoI0/?igshid=1oa3slq05cu8t