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A life-long New Yorker, Lucas established a solo practice in Queens early in her career, specializing in real estate, landlordtenant and civil rights. She also was an attorney in the federal governments Office of Price Administration for two years during World War II.

Lucas was the first African-American woman admitted to the Queens County Womens Bar Association. However, she found it difficult to participate in the bars business since its meetings were generally conducted at restaurants that barred Black people. Undeterred by such obstacles, she ran for the City Council in 1957 on the Republican ticket, the first time an African-American was nominated in Queens for elective office. She lost the election but remained active in the Republican Party. In 1966, Governor Nelson Rockefeller appointed her special assistant to the commissioner of the State Commission Against Discrimination which later became the state Division of Human Rights, and she became a deputy commissioner six years later. During her tenure, she helped draft a new human rights law for the state and developed a hearing process for complaints.

Lucas left government service in 1975, working as a consultant on affirmative action programs. In 1982, she established her own firm consulting with banks in New York, Connecticut, and Ohio. Lucas served as the president of the Jamaica NAACP and was prominent in an array of religious, community, and business organizations. She was the first African- American woman elected to the Judicial Council of the United Methodist Church, its highest governing body. She was a great booster of Black-owned businesses, including Ebony Oil Company, the first Black-owned oil company in New York. She was a member of the board of trustees of Marymount Manhattan College, and the school awarded her an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters in 1986, a year before she died.

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