Margaret Tucker
Margaret Lilardia Tucker
Early life
Margaret Tucker was born at
In 1917, aged 13, she was forcibly removed to the
Activism
In the 1930s Tucker began campaigning for Indigenous rights with William Cooper, Bill Onus and Douglas Nicholls and in 1932 was one of the founding members of the Australian Aborigines' League.[6] During this time she married and gave birth to a daughter, Mollie.[4] At first influenced by the Communist Party of Australia, she gravitated later towards the conservative Moral Re-Armament movement.[5] This deepened with an eight-month stay at Mackinac Island. In the 1960s she founded the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women and in 1964 she was the first Indigenous appointee to the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board.[7]
Order of the British Empire
Tucker was awarded the MBE in 1968, recognising her welfare services to Aboriginal Australians.[8] Her 1977 autobiography If Everyone Cared was one of the first books to bring to light the mistreatment of her people.
Awards
Margaret Tucker was inducted in the Victorian Women's Honour Roll, one of the first to receive the honour, in 2001.[9]
References
- ^ "Patron of VACCA – Margaret Elizabeth Tucker, MBE". Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency. Archived from the original on 24 September 2010. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
- ^ S2CID 144255211.
- ^ "Remembering Margaret Tucker (1904 – 1996)". Koori History - Aboriginal History of South Eastern Australia. 6 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2020.
- ^ ISBN 0-19-553381-X.
- ^ ISSN 0311-4198
- ^ Land, Clare (4 May 2009). "Tucker, Margaret Elizabeth (1904 - 1996)". The Australian Women’s Register. Australian Women's Archives Project. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
- ^ "'Nan' still helps needy Aborigines". The Canberra Times. Vol. 50, no. 14, 267. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 6 January 1976. p. 3. Retrieved 13 August 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/44484/supplement/24, "Margaret Elizabeth Tucker. For welfare services to the aborigines."
- ^ "Margaret Elizabeth Tucker".
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