UpDate - Vol. 12, No. 16, Page 1
January 7, 1993
Program to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

     A limited number of tickets are available for the University community
to "A Day of Celebration Commemorating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King
Jr.," scheduled from 9-11 a.m., Monday, Jan. 18, at the Bob Carpenter
Sports/Convocation Center.
     The free program is sponsored by the Du Pont Co., in cooperation with
the University of Delaware.
     Interested members of the University community may pick up general
admission tickets on a first-come, first-served basis from 9 a.m.-5 p.m.,
Friday, Jan. 8, in the Office of Affirmative Action and Multicultural
Programs, 124 Hullihen Hall. Students will be able to pick up one ticket,
and University employees may pick up two tickets.
     Keynote speaker for the event will be C. Delores Tucker, the founding
president of the Martin Luther King Association for Non-Violent Change, the
first and only association in the United States commissioned by Coretta
Scott King.
     Pennsylvania secretary of state from 1971-77, Tucker was the first
African-American woman in the nation to serve in that post.
     During that time, she instituted the first commission on the status of
women in Pennsylvania and was responsible for the governor's appointment of
more women and minorities to boards and commissions and more women judges
in the state's history. She also led the effort to make Pennsylvania one of
the first states to pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
     Currently Tucker chairs the Democratic National Committee Black
Caucus. She was the first African American to serve as president of the
National Federation of Democratic Women and was the convening founder of
the National Political Congress of Black Women.
     Her civic and political career has included participating with Dr.
King in the Selma-to-Montgomery march in 1965; serving as delegate to the
historic White House Conference on Civil Rights; and serving on the NAACP
Board of Trustees.