Margaret Tucker

Margaret Lilardia Tucker (18 March 1904 – 23 August 1996) was an Indigenous Australian activist and writer.
Early life
Margaret Tucker was born at Warrangesda Mission to William Clements, a Wiradjuri man and Teresa Clements, née Middleton, a Yulupna woman. She spent her childhood at Cummeragunja Mission until at the age of 13 she was forcibly removed to the Cootamundra Domestic Training Home for Aboriginal Girls where she was badly treated. After training at Cootamundra in 1919 she was sent out to work for a white family where she was abused. The Aborigines Protection Board intervened and she was given another placement from which she ran away. In 1925 the Board released her and she moved to Melbourne.
Activism
In the 1930s Tucker began campaigning for Indigenous rights with William Cooper, Bill Onus and Douglas Nicholls and in 1932 was one of the founding members of the Australian Aborigines' League. During this time she married and gave...