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So much in the city has changed and developed since her birth and luckily she has been around long enough to recount some of the city’s amazing history and her involvement in it. Tuckson was born in Freeman’s Hospital, one of D.C.’s first black hospitals, and has resided in N.W. for most of her years. She returned many years later to the hospital actually to work as a nurse. While working there she met her husband Dr. Tuckson. During
War World War II she remembers serving in a cadet nursing program. She
was one of the first black nurses to see a white patient in the Visiting
Nurses Program. Now, content in her retirement from nursing, Tuckson enjoys |
creating
dollsand crystal figurines,
other arts and crafts, and traveling with her husband.
Racial
discrimination is something she remembers encountering often in D.C. The
schools she attended as a child were segregated. She also remembers many
of the clubs in the city being segregated. She
remembered very fondly the good times she had as a young women living in
the city. She would attend house parties, although according to her “not
too many”. Tuckson also frequented clubs and restaurants on U St. She also
remembers one of D.C.’s historical landmarks, the Howard Theater. She noted
how they had all sorts of entertainment there such as jazz, comedians,
and movies. One
of her final quotes for the interview was “I never dreamed we would be
doing this thank you. ”I don’t think she knows how much we appreciate her
for doing this".
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