Draft:Charles Ewbank Tucker

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Charles Ewbank Tucker (January 12, 1898 - December 25, 1975) was a lawyer, church leader, and civil rights leader in the United States.

Whilst acting as defence in 1931 for a murder suspect in Elizabethtown, Kentucky he drew attention for asking for the jury to include blacks. After leaving the court he was set upon, badly beaten and looked likely to by lynched before the state police intervened.

Tucker died December 25, 1975 aged 83.