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Civil Rights activist and longtime Hip-Hop
antagonist C. Delores Tucker died in Norristown, Pennsylvania's
SuburbanWoods Health Center the age of 78 yesterday. Heads will remember Tucker for her campaign against obscene lyrics in rap music.
Despite being on the NAACP's board of trustees, she protested, wrote letters and
picketed the NAACP in 1994 when it nominated Tupac
Shakur for an Image Award. Pac didn't win the award. Back in 94,
referring to Pac's music, Tucker
told The Philadelphia Inquirer she was "ready to go to jail, ready to
die, whatever is necessary to stop this pornographic filth." Pac and other rappers then shot back by dissing Tucker in their lyrics,
prompting the activist to file defamation lawsuits against the artists and their
labels. In 1999, a
federal judge threw out a $10 million suit Tucker filed against the estate of
the late Shakur for rhyming her last name with an obscenity on 1996's All
Eyez On Me. Tucker's activism began at a young age. At only 16, she protested on a
flatbed truck in front of Philadelphia's Bellevue Statford hotel because it
refused to admit Black athletes. Years later, in 1965, Tucker marched alongside
Martin Luther King during a Civil Rights protest in Selma, Alabama. In
1970, she became the first Black woman to be named a vice chair of the state
democratic party and became the vice president of Pennsylvania's NAACP chapter.
She founded the National Political Congress of Black Women in 1984. The cause of her death has yet to be revealed. Tucker is survived by her
husband. Funeral services have yet to arranged. | ||||
