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A 3rd generation activist daughter interviews her father about his Civil Rights efforts during the 50s and 60s...

NEW ORLEANS (5/25/2021) - The instruction from the class professor was to identify and interview a person who participated as a civil rights activist during the turbulent 50s and 60s.

For Iam C. Tucker, that guidance was not a difficult assignment.

As a 3rd generation activist daughter of an African American family steeped in a tradition of struggle for Black empowerment, Iam was in her comfort zone.

Her paternal great-grandfather, Thomas Tucker Jr., was an African Methodist Episcopal circuit rider and presiding elder in the Greensburg, LA. Region. In fact, Thomas Tucker Jr. was ordained by AME Bishop Henry McNeal Turner, the outspoken member of the Georgia State Legislature. And Iam’s grandfather, Robert H, Tucker Sr., was both a respected civil rights leader, AME minister and independent business owner.

Family tradition aside, Iam chose her father, Robert H. Tucker, Jr., as the Civil Rights leader whom she best identified with. More specifically, she knew in a strongly personal context, among other facts, the following about her dad:

➢ As a Black man, he grew up in the completely segregated solid South during the ’50s and ’60s.

➢ That as a student attending an HBCU educational institution, her dad had been arrested with 110 other students for attempting to eat at a lunch counter in Atlanta, GA.

➢ He was the first African American assistant to the mayor of New Orleans in 1970, leading the way for Blacks to serve in positions of authority in a previously all white environment.

➢ That he and other Black leaders had been instrumental in mediating a peaceful settlement to the NOPD efforts to evict the Black Panther Party from the Desire Housing Project.

Iam’s incisive questions cover a broad expanse of what an inside view of the movement looks like.

More importantly, the obvious working chemistry between dad and daughter offers comfort to those working to build similar relationships.

Iam Christian Tucker, is the President/CEO of ILSI Engineering. ILSI Engineering is a seasoned government contractor that provides cost-efficient, highly effective services to large-scale primes and government agencies. The company specializes in civil engineering, structural engineering, construction management, and program management services on large-scale public sector and private industrial projects.

We are a full-service Civil & Structural Engineering, Construction Management, & Civil Survey company headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana, and serving select government & private industrial clients throughout the United States and abroad. We are committed to efficient, cost-effective professional services that deliver solutions for every client’s specific scope and vision.

Robert H. "Bob" Tucker, Jr., is President /CEO of GreenPastures Unlimited, a New Orleans-based Consultancy, providing business and political advisory services to local and national clients.