Amelia Audrey Moore Tucker (1902 – February 9, 1987) was an American politician and minister from the U.S. state of Kentucky.
In the 1930s, her husband ran twice unsuccessfully on the Democratic ticket for the Kentucky House of Representatives.
[1] Tucker was elected to the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1961 as a Republican, defeating a Black Democratic candidate[3] to become the first Black woman to serve in the Kentucky General Assembly and the first to serve as a Southern state legislator since Reconstruction.
[2] She served on President Richard Nixon's advisory council on ethnic groups during the early 1970s.
[5] After her husband's death in 1975, Tucker moved to Los Angeles, where she died on February 9, 1987, and was interred at Eastern Cemetery.