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Both seem to be taken outside as tree branches are visible in the background.
Despite there being immediate hospitals in the area, Moore was driven to a hospital 30 miles away since it was the closest facility that accepted Black patients. His commitment to
education, justice, and equality transformed communities from Eatonville to Mims and
beyond. I am a Central Floridia native, raised in Sebring and residing in the Orlando metro since 2003.
Ku Klux Klan activity was on the rise, and on Christmas Eve in 1951, the Moores were assassinated when a bomb was placed under their bedroom. The locket, which is overlaid in gold metal with a floral pattern engraved on the front, contains two black and white photographs, one of Harriette and one of Harry. He was especially interested in addressing unequal salaries, segregated schools, and the disenfranchisement of Black voters.
He graduated from Bethune Cookman, where he met his wife Harriet. He led the voting registration drive and filed lawsuits against voter suppression techniques. .
And this he says, our Harry Moore,
As from the grave he cries:
No bomb can kill the dreams I hold,
For freedom never dies!
Harry T.
Moore: Champion of Justice
Brevard County
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Transcript
Harry T.
Moore: A champion for justice.
Meet Harry Tyson Moore, Florida’s forgotten hero of the Civil Rights Movement. He joined the NAACP in 1934 and became president of the Brevard County branch shortly after he and Harriette founded the local organization.
The pocket watch from the Illinois Watch Company appears to be from the 1920s and is made of metal and glass.
Harry T. Moore
Harry T. Moore stands as a towering figure in the annals of Florida’s civil rights
movement, a man whose life and sacrifice epitomize the struggle for justice and
equality.
Moore: Setting a Precedent, Posthumously Honored
Moore posthumously received the Spingarn Medal from the NAACP in 1952 and in the 1990s the family and local residents worked with the state to dedicate their home to serve as a memorial/museum in their honor.
After uncovering evidence that the Groveland defendants had been brutally beaten, Moore leveled those charges against the most notorious lawman in the country: Sheriff Willis McCall of Lake County.
Groveland defendants Walter Irvin, Sammy Shepherd, and 16-year-old Charles Greenlee were convicted in 1949, and Irvin and Shepherd were sentenced to death.
Moore used the NAACP platform to challenge inequality at the local and statewide level. His voice echoed throughout the state as he organized
protests, spearheaded voter registration drives, and led campaigns against lynching and
discrimination.
Moore's commitment to civil rights reached a fever pitch in the late 1940s when he
became a leading figure in the fight for racial equality in Florida.
On November 6, 1951, while Sheriff McCall was driving two of the defendants, Walter Irvin and Sammy Shepherd, back to Lake County for a pre-trial hearing, he shot them, killing Shepherd and critically wounding Irvin. On Christmas night in 1951, his life
was cut short when a bomb exploded at his home in Mims, a brutal act of violence
meant to silence him.
Thank you for watching.
byJason Byrne
I am a software executive by day and a history blogger by night. We know what images Harriette kept close to her heart in the locket and we can see how Harry kept track of time. Through its featured exhibition "Defending Freedom, Defining Freedom: Era of Segregation 1876-1968," The National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) exhibits artifacts that help tell Moore’s story and connect him to events that occurred in the early 20th century as well as today.
An Exceptional Student
Moore was born on November 18, 1905, in Houston, Florida (Suwannee County) to Stephen John and Rosalea Albert Moore.