C. DeLores Tucker Passes On
Posted by DaveRap News Network Staff10/13/2005 9:53:57 AM
C. DeLores Tucker who protested against obscenities in hip hop/rap music and became semi-famous in hip-hop culture by being mentioned in songs by the late west coast hip-hop and rap icon Tupac Shakur, died Wednesday October 13th at the age of 78. The self-appointed morality monitor C. DeLores Tucker wasn’t a big fan of gangsta rap or for that fact hip-hop.
Ms. Tucker and William Bennett successfully raided a board meeting by the leaders of Time-Warner, and used their might to get the company to drop Interscope and Death Row Records, two major sources of rap music. Afterward, Tucker tried to bully Marion ‘Suge’ Knight, the CEO of Death Row Records, into handing the label over to her. Both companies sued Tucker for extortion. During the fight, Tucker threatened Suge Knight, via her attorney, that if Death Row was not turned over to her Suge would spend the rest of his life in jail.
C. Delores Tucker also has sued hip-hop rap icon Tupac Shakur for his "All Eyez On Me" album, which she described as "ruining her sex-life". Tucker then sued Newsweek Magazine for running a story about her lawsuit against Tupac.
And yes that is the same William Bennett who recently said “abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down”. See that story HERE.
History of C.Delores Tucker in rap and hip-hop related articles HERE and HERE.
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Civil rights pioneer Vivian Malone Jones diesDefied Wallace's 'stand in the schoolhouse door' at 'Bama
By KAY POWELLThe Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionPublished on: 10/13/05
When Vivian Malone Jones tried to integrate the University of Alabama in 1963, that prompted Gov. George Wallace's infamous stand in the schoolhouse door.
Mrs. Jones waited out the governor's stand and speech, enrolled in the university and in 1965 became its first black graduate. Her degree was in management.
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Montgomery Advertiser, Patricia Miklik/AP
Former Alabama Gov. George Wallace met with Vivian Malone Jones before she received the first Lurleen B. Wallace Award of Courage in 1996. Wallace tried to keep Jones from attending the University of Alabama 33 years before.
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Thirty-three years later, Mrs. Jones was honored by the state of Alabama with an award named for the governor's wife, the late Gov. Lurleen Wallace. The award recognizes women who have made major improvements in the state.
Mrs. Jones, 63, of Atlanta, who retired from the Environmental Protection Agency, died today at Atlanta Medical Center of a stroke. She had been admitted to the hospital Tuesday. Funeral plans will be announced by Murray Bros. Cascade Chapel.
Gov. Wallace, who died in 1998, had reached out to Mrs. Jones for forgiveness and apologized for the confrontation at the university.
"There is no question Wallace and I will be remembered for the stand in the schoolhouse door. There is no way you can overcome that," Mrs. Jones said in a 1996 Associated Press article. "But the best that can happen at this point is to say it was a mistake. We all make mistakes."
Mrs. Jones said she wanted to be treated like an ordinary college student when Gov. Wallace cast her and James Hood into the national spotlight on June 11, 1963, the AP reported. In a carefully prepared scenario, he made a speech about states' rights and stepped aside to let Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hood enter under National Guard protection.
At the time of the presentation of the crystal eagle award in his wife's memory, Gov. Wallace said, "Vivian Malone Jones was at the center of the fight over states' rights and conducted herself with grace, strength and, above all, courage. She deserves to be rewarded for her actions in that air of uncertainty."
"My mind was mostly on going to class and doing the best I could," Mrs. Jones said in a 1995 Atlanta Journal-Constitution article. "It had taken me two and a half years to gain admission, and nobody--including the governor--was going to tell me I didn't have the right to attend that school."
Though Mrs. Jones and Mr. Hood are on record as integrating the University of Alabama, they were not the first blacks to enroll at the university. Autherine Juanita Lucy Foster integrated the college in 1956. But, after mobs taunted and threatened her for three days, the university expelled her, saying it was unable to provide protection.
"Autherine's experience, as horrible as it was, was an inspiration to me," Mrs. Jones said in the AJC article. It hardened her resolve. "I felt I had a responsibility and obligation to myself, my family, and my people. I also had a responsibility to Autherine."
On the day before Mrs. Jones registered, Medgar Evers, the NAACP field secretary in Mississippi, was gunned down in his driveway. Even that didn't turn Mrs. Jones around.
Mrs. Jones could not talk about her college experience for at least 10 years. She later came to terms with her recollections and thought they were relevant to present day race relations.
Mrs. Jones' husband, Dr. Mack A. Jones, died in September 2004.
Survivors include a son, Michael Jones of Stockbridge; a daughter, Monica Shareef of Lithonia; three brothers, Elvin Malone of Macon, Charles Malone of Mobile and Clint Malone of Dallas, Texas; four sisters, Gwen Moseby of Mobile, Joyce Phillips of Atlanta, Marjorie Tuckxon of Minneapolis and Sharon Malone of Washington, D.C.; and three grandchildren.
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