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C. Delores Tucker, official state portrait, circa 1975.
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Oil on canvas of a black woman wearing a red two piece suit, three strings of pearls, and seated.

Credit: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission

Known for her powerful oratory, fashionable dresses, and turbans–modeled after those worn by Princess Grace of Monaco, who had also grown up in Philadelphia–C. Delores Tucker had a long history in the civil rights movement and politics.

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