my? ?m Executive Registry 77' 0 6:3] 7 COMMONWEALTH OF {girl I 3- DEPARTMENT OF STATE HARRISBURG, mao C. DeLoses TUCKER SECRETARY THE COMMONWEALTH MarCh 8 1977 Mr. E.H. Knoche Acting Director Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 Dear Mr. Knoche: It was a great honor and pleasure meeting you on my recent visit to the CIA for Black History Month. You and your staff could not have been more gracious in making me feel at home. In fact, if I weren?t already involved in meaningful public service, I just might have taken you up on your job offer! I am delighted that you feel my message on black women had such a positive impact. May I return your compliment by saying that if there were more public servants of your calibre in executive positions, the advances of humankind would truly have been multiplied. Pittsburgh and the Commonwealth are indeed proud to claim you as a native son. Hopefully we will have the opportunity to meet again in the near future. Kindest personal regards, Sincerely, Bicentennial 13.17% Approved For Release 2004/03/17 CIA-RDP80M00165A001100110017-3 nun-? ting Dire: of ExeCutive Registry . - 1100110017_3 Attached is the formal letter inviting U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young to appear as guest speaker for a Black History Month program scheduled for 28 February. STAT b. Ware, "d1 . Director Equal Employment Opportunity Approved For Release 2004/03/17 IA-RDP 0M00165 - Bat? Fegruary ?8917100110017 3 my 101 gamma Per Office of For Release 2004N3I17: CIA- RDP80M00165A001100110017- 3 Mr. ?Ware and Mr. Knoche decited not $0 send this letter Would you so note on our file copy and return the rest of the copies to office of EEO. SW STAT Approved For Release 2004/03/17 CIA-RDP80M00165A001100110017-3 STAT hm Approved For Release 2004/03/17 axecutive Registry ?06:3 If? pal-9x The Hanerabie Andrew Yaung 3.5. ?issian ta the ?nite? Eatians Plaza Haw Y?rk, Haw York ?ner Ambassa?or Yaung: Pursuant ta our earlier canversatian, this note axtan?s an effitial invitation to yen ta particigate in Our Black Eistory Month program an February 28. The Agency activities far this year?s observance are {sensed an the histerical and contem?crary achieVEments 9f Black American wamen. You may speak on any tepic you wish, inclu?ing the theme of our program if it wanld be of value ta you. ?e will ask a member af cur ?ffice of equal Employment Opportunity ta be yeur ccntact and ta provide yen with any support yen may nee?. Sincerely years, E. H. Knache Acting Birectar GEES :OJCWare:jw Bistributian: ?rig Addee - E/Reg - 0L0 - ADC: chrono - Liaisen Approved For Release 2004/03/17 CIA-RDP80M00165A001100110017-3 waww Central Intelligence Agency .. . 7 Approved??di? Release 2004/03/17Washington, D. C. 20505 February 14 5 1? Mrs. C. DeLores Tucker Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of State Capitol Building Harrisburg, 17120 Dear Mrs. Tucker: The vibes were entirely good throughout CIA Headquarters today and all of us at the.Agency'want you to know how much we appreciated yOur joining us on the occasion of Black History Month. Your remarks were right on and we thrilled to your message of pride in the accomplishments.of black women and the need now to link all humanity in this land of ours as we face future challenges. Your talk was inspirational and I count it a true privilege that we were able to have you in our midst. May more of our fellow Americans have the opportunity to hear your message and to get to know you. Thanks for coming our way. A return visit is more than welceme.. .any time. All the best. Faithful ly yours STAT EHKnoche:sm/14Feb77 - E.H.hmdw Distribution: Acting Director Orig - Addressee 0.- Ware, EEO ER 2 - DDCI files 1 gravy wk 7'31}- gen-Ii.? 11-7, . 12.3 7 93hr 4-. Approved For Release 20 34/03/17 CIA-RDP80M00165A001100110017-3 4? I. . i158 I imitative liegish}; 5.1 ?l C. TUCKER SECRETARY or THE January 26 1977 Honorable George Bush The Director Central Intelligence Agency Washington, D.C. 20505 Dear Director Bush: Thank you for your very kind invitation to participate in the observance of Black History Week. I will be delighted to be your keynote speaker at 12 Noon, Monday, February 14, 1977. It will, indeed, be a pleasure to share my views with you and your staff. STAT Please ask of your agency, to contact my assistant, 1M3. Marie Bessick, to finalize details. 1 Attached, please find a resume and photograph. Again, may I thank you for inviting me "to! part1c1pate in?your program .. Sincerely, U) - C. DeLore new/W STAT . . CC "itAttachment Approved For Release 2004/03/17 I .. Approved c. TUCKER C. DeLores Tucker, Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of since January 1971, is the highest ranking black woman 1 state government in the country. She is Vice President of the NAACP, Vice Chairman of the Black Democratic Committee, Secretary of the National Board of Directors of PUSH, and Vice President of the National Association of Secretaries of State. She is a member of the National Women's Political Caucus, the 1976 Democratic National Campaign Committee. -She is?a former vice chairman of the Democratic State Committee and a former member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. She was a founder of the National Black Woman's Caucus Mrs. Tucker holds honorary degrees from Villa Maria College, Erie, and from Morris College, Sumter, South Carolina. Before becoming Secretary of State, she was president of C. DeLores Tucker Associates, a Philadelphia public relations firm, and served as a member and secretary of the Philadelphia Zoning Board of Adjustment. . Mrs. Tucker participated with Dr. Martin Luther King in the Selma-Montgomery March, and was a delegate to the White House Conference on Civil Rights. She received the 1961 NAACP Freedom Fund Awardinthe National Association of Television and Radio Artists (NATRA) Woman of the Year Award, 1972; the Martin Luther King Service and Achievement, Award; the National Opportunities Industrialization Center, 1nc.?fOIC) Achievement Award; the 1974 Community Service Award, Quaker City Chapter B'nai Brith. She was named by Ebony magazine as one of America?s4?100;a Most Influential Black Americans" for the past four years. W1 - Other activities include membership on the board of directors of: Commonwealth Board of the Medical College of the New School of Music; the Philadelphia Tribune Charities, Tnc.; Messiah College Board of Associates; The Martin Luther King Center for Social ?Change; the CATALYST Council of Advisors, and Links, Int. Tucker is a member of the Bicentennial Commission and the Commission on Women. She is an honorary member of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Mrs. Tucker is the wife of William L. Tucker and daughter of Rev. Whitfield Nottage and the late Captilda Nottage. . She was appointed to a second four-year term as Secretary of the Commonwealth of by Governor Milton J. Shapp on January 6, 1975. Mrs. Tucker was nominated by Ladies' Home Journal (1975 and 1976] as one of its ?Women of the Year,? .She was named as best qualified to be Ambassador to the United Nations on a slate of 22 women who could save America by the National Women's Political Caucus and Redbook magazine. 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