From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Charles Ewbank Tucker was a lawyer, a civil rights advocate, and a leader in the AMEZ Church. He also was co-editor of The Herald Tribune, a Louisville newspaper with co-editors William Warley and Huron Clark [source: The Fascinating Story of Black Kentuckians, by A. A. Dunnigan, p. 528]. Tucker led early civil rights demonstrations and sit-ins in Louisville in the 1940s through the 1960s. Tucker also delivered the benediction at U.S. President Nixon's inauguration in 1960. He was the husband of Rev. Amelia M. Tucker.

Charles E. Tucker was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Olivia and William Tucker. The family lived in Jamaica. He was a 1913 graduate of Beckford and Smith's school (perhaps now St. Jago High School) in Jamaica and a 1917 graduate of Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He was the pastor of the Stoner Memorial AMEZ Church [at 1127 West Oak Street] in Louisville and completed the Kentucky Bar Exam in 1929. His son, Neville M. Tucker, was also a lawyer and judge in Louisville.

Republican Charles E. Tucker became a bishop in 1956. He died in Louisvlle December 25, 1975 and has a burial site at Eastern Cemetery, with his cremains stored at the Louisville Crematiorium Custodial Storage facility in Louisville.

For more see Life Behind a Veil, by G. C. Wright and the Charles Ewbank Tucker biography in The Last Public Execution in America, by P. T. Ryan.