Jan B. Tucker: Private Investigator, State Director-California League of Latin American Citizens; Criminal Justice Columnist-Counter Punch Magazine; Commentator-Black Talk Radio; Member CWA Local 39521 Pacific Media Workers Guild-Freelancer Unit
Viola Liuzzo was the wife of a Michigan Teamster. At the height of the civil rights movement in Mississippi she went there to assist the many, many people who risked their lives day and night for the right of all people to register and vote. She was gunned down by the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).
Medgar Evers
Medgar Evers was an organizer for the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) in Mississippi. He too was murdered by the KKK for his efforts to achieve the right to register and vote.
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman
Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman, two Jews and an African American, were murdered by the KKK for registering people to vote.
Susan B. Anthony
Susan B. Anthony was arrested, tried, and convicted of illegally casting a vote because the law did not allow women to vote.
Think of all the people who died or were persecuted because they fought for equal rights. Then make sure that you vote.
The Detectives Diary is an innovative tool combining Private Investigation and Journalism. In 1984, Steve Harvey's Los Angeles Times "Around the Southland" Column entitled Jan Tucker's program of providing low-cost "Opposition Research" services to indigent and working class candidates for public office, "Take Cover: Hired Mudslinger Rides into Town." A 1996 Los Angeles Times article by Henry Chu carried a sub-headline identifying Tucker as a "P.R. Guru." In November 2012, Tucker became Criminal Justice Columnist for Counter Punch Magazine and a commentator for Black Talk Radio.
As a private investigator since 1979 and a former First Vice President of Newspaper Guild Local 69, Tucker takes these skills to a new level in the pages of the Detectives Diary with insightful and unique exposures and analysis of history and current events.
State Director--California League of Latin American Citizens, Former seven term Chairman of the Board of the California Association of Licensed Investigators, Co-President San Fernando Valley/Northeast Los Angeles Chapter-National Organization for Women, former National Commissioner for Civil Rights-League of United Latin American Citizens, former Second Vice President-Inglewood-South Bay Branch-National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, former founding Vice President-Armenian American Action Committee, former First Vice President, Newspaper Guild Local 69 (AFL-CIO, CLC, CWA), Board member, Alameda Corridor Jobs Coalition, Community Advisory Board member--USC-Keck School of Medicine Alzheimer's Disease Research Project
