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Margaret Tucker

Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (died 1996)

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Born
March 28, 1904
Died
August 23, 1996
Zodiac sign
Aries
Birth year
1904

About Margaret Tucker

Margaret Lilardia Tucker MBE was an Aboriginal Australian activist and writer who was among the first Aboriginal authors to publish an autobiography If Everyone Cared, in 1977; a new edition of this work was published in 2024. Margaret Tucker was inducted in the Victorian Women's Honour Roll, one of the first to receive the honour, in 2001. Tucker was awarded the MBE in 1968, recognising her welfare services to Aboriginal Australians. In the 1960s she founded the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women and in 1964 she was the first Indigenous appointee to the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board.

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Margaret Tucker timeline

  1. In the 1960s she founded the United Council of Aboriginal and Islander Women and in 1964 she was the first Indigenous appointee to the Victorian Aborigines Welfare Board.
  2. Tucker was awarded the MBE in 1968, recognising her welfare services to Aboriginal Australians.
  3. Margaret Tucker was inducted in the Victorian Women's Honour Roll, one of the first to receive the honour, in 2001.

The world when Margaret Tucker was born

Margaret Tucker was born in 1904. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1904

  • Best-selling book"The Crossing" – Winston Churchill

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentFirst Olympic Games in the Americas (St. Louis)
  • Top headlineRusso-Japanese War begins
  • Technology milestoneNew York subway opens
  • World population~1.64B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderTheodore Roosevelt
  • U.S. population81.8M

1904 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Margaret Tucker's birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19042026
Population81.8M341 million

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