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Creation Date
2023
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Born in Alabama in 1908, Amelia Audrey Moore Tucker moved to Kentucky with her husband during the 1920’s. While in Kentucky, Rev. Tucker became a pastor at the Brown Temple AME Zion Church as well as became the first African-American woman to be elected to Kentucky State Legislature. While in office, she helped pass a bill that prohibited businesses from discriminating against people of color. Tucker is also credited as being a member of the Jefferson County Republican executive committee between 1960 and 1970. After her husband died, she moved to California where she later died in 1987.
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Western Kentucky University, Kentucky Museum, Special Collections Library