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This chapter provides an overview of the activism of C. Delores Tucker, a charismatic and outspoken racial justice advocate, long-time civil rights activist, first Black female Secretary of State for Pennsylvania, and co-founder of the National Political Congress of Black Women. The chapter explores how Tucker’s contribution to the National Women’s Conference—a public denunciation of the all-white Mississippi delegation—reflected her wider approach to social change. It situates the moment at the Conference within Tucker’s general preference for creating change through top-down means and via existing institutions and structures. In doing so, the chapter highlights how Tucker’s activism stood in contrast to how historians have tended to represent contemporary women of color’s activism.