PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Civil rights activist and outspoken foe of profane rap lyrics, C. DeLores Tucker, has died in Philadelphia at age 78.
Tucker -- who marched with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma, Ala. -- died Oct. 12 at a rehabilitation center, the New York Times reported Sunday.
Tucker was the highest-ranking black woman in any state government in the 1970s when she became secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
She led the National Political Congress of Black Women and held leadership positions in the Democratic Party, the National Women's Caucus and the NAACP.
But she was probably best known for her campaign against "sleazy, pornographic, smut" -- her words for the gangsta rap lyrics in the 1990s.
She picketed the NAACP's Image Awards to protest the nomination of the late rapper Tupac Shakur and later sued his estate for $10 million charging defamation for mentioning her in an obscene lyric.
The suit was dismissed.
