Fight for The Right to Read

Samuel Wilbert Tucker and the 1939 Sit-Down Strike for Library Reading Equality

By Jeff Gottesfeld & Michelle Y. Green

Illustrated by Kim Holt

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Wilbert Tucker grew up in the segregated South and became a lawyer who loved to read. In 1939, he organized a sit-down-in-the-library protest to fight for the right to read along with the rest of the public. It took many court cases and years of fighting, but Tucker fought with words and conviction until everyone could sit and read in the public library.