Matthew Hayes, librarian at Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia, pairs the sit-in chapter in Samuel Wilbert Tucker: The Story of a Civil Rights Trailblazer and the 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-in with Ron’s Big Mission (Dutton, 2009) by Rose Blue and Corinne J. Naden, which tells how Challenger astronaut…

American Libraries, a journal of the American Library Association, listed the 1939 Alexandria Library sit-in first in its timeline of sit-ins at segregated public libraries.  The sit-in, organized by Samuel Wilbert Tucker, was carried out by five courageous young American American men. The next sit-in didn’t happen until  1960.  https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2017/06/01/i-always-will-refuse-civil-rights-library-sit-in/…

People who act for social justice inspire us to search for our own power to face adversity, challenge what we know is wrong, and fight for justice and equal opportunity for all.  The five young African American men and Samuel Wilbert Tucker who challenged the policy of a segregated Alexandria…

Alexandria is Site of Early Civil Rights Sit-in was a story NBC Channel 4 in Washington DC did on February 6, 2017 about the peaceful public library protest that happened 21 years before the lunch counter sit-ins of the 1960s. This is the link on their website:  http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Unsung-Civil-Rights-Hero-Comes-To-Light_Washington-DC-412947913.html A transcript of the story is also…