Come help Norfolk Public Library celebrate Richard A. Tucker Day at his namesake Memorial Library on Saturday, Feb. 8 from 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
2350 Berkley Ave. EXT | (757) 823-4200
- Reader's Theater ft. Southside STEM Academy & St. Helena School students.
- WHRO STEM Van.
- Exhibit from the Berkley Historical Society.
- Black History Month-themed Storytime.
- Spoken word performance by Synnika Lofton on Celebrating African-American Literature.
- Lunch and much more!
Richard Allen Tucker was born in Norfolk City, Va., in February 1850. In 1876, Norfolk Public Schools (NPS) hired Tucker as a schoolteacher, and in 1888, he became rector (principal) of the Cumberland Street School (renamed the S.C. Armstrong School), the first African American school built by NPS. The school was later renamed the Tucker School.