The 2023 revision of the Virginia Studies Curriculum now includes Samuel Wilbert Tucker as a famous Virginian whom all Virginia 4th graders need to know. He organized the 1939 sit-in at the Alexandria Library to challenge their segregation-era policy of only allowing white people to use the public library. He…
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Hook Students on Minnesota History will feature Nancy Noyes Silcox’s new book A Place Called Home about German Immigrants from Cincinnati who seek security, opportunity and freedom in New Ulm, a new settlement on the Minnesota frontier. MEA 2024 is Oct. 17th at Saint Paul RiverCentre, 175 West Kellogg Boulevard,…
Continue reading: Minnesota Education Association Conference Oct 17thMeet the author, Nancy Noyes Silcox, and hear about A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm, Minnesota 1856-1862. It’s the story of young Carolina Beck and her family who are driven from Cincinnati, Ohio, by rising hostilities toward immigrants. They travel by…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home at Twin Cities Book Festival Oct. 19thOn August 24, 2024, the Brown County Historical Society in New Ulm, Minnesota, will host an author talk and book signing for A Place Called Home: The Story of German Immigrants from Cincinnati, Ohio to New Ulm, Minnesota 1856-1862. The event begins at 12 noon in the museum annex and…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home Release Date50 North, 1651 Jefferson Parkway, Northfield MN 55057 Refused a library card at the public library, twenty-six-year-old African American lawyer Samuel W. Tucker organized a sit-in to protest the library’s whites-only policy in 1939. He defended the protesters when they were arrested for disorderly conduct. Facing down Virginia’s “massive resistance”…
Continue reading: Author Talk at 50 North, Northfield, MN June 21, 2024New America is a liberal think tank that focuses on public policy issues. They are developing online curriculum to help students learn about Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Alexandria Library sit-in. As a part of their work, they interviewed several people connected with this story. Here is the link…
Continue reading: Nancy Noyes Silcox Interview about Samuel W. TuckerPeople with information about the Alexandria Library Sit-in that Samuel W. Tucker organized in 1939 and Tucker’s legacy were interviewed by New America, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. Tucker was included in the 2023 Virginia Standards of Learning (learning objectives) as one of the famous Virginians students will study. In…
Continue reading: Samuel W. Tucker Curriculum MaterialsTelling Samuel Wilbert Tucker’s story in the Alexandria, VA church his family attended and where he played the piano, was especially meaningful for me. I was thrilled to be invited and pleased so many people, including neighbors, wanted to know more about Tucker and his work to desegregate public libraries…
Continue reading: Tucker Talk at Zion Baptist Church, Feb. 12, 2023Follow the story of the fictional Beck family as they move from Cincinnati, Ohio to the new western frontier town of New Ulm, Minnesota in 1857. As they learn to live in a new place that the indigenous Dakota also call home, they experience the challenges of building a house,…
Continue reading: A Place Called Home: German Immigrant in Minnesota 1856-1862Growing up in New Ulm, Minnesota, I didn’t learn much about the war on the prairie in 1862. New Ulm was one of the places attacked by Dakota warriors. That’s really the only fact I knew. When a chance comment got my curiosity activated, I began searching for sources…
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