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Harry T. Moore
September 27, 1952 issue

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This article focuses on Harry T. Moore, a great Southern Negro leader in the U.S. Harry T. Moore was a soft-spoken, self-effacing man. For seventeen years he went about Florida organizing conferences, investigating lynchings, protesting acts of police brutality. Moore was a pioneer in the struggle to establish the principle of "equal pay for equal work" for Florida's Negro teachers. His militancy cost him his teaching job in 1945 and by way of further punishment his wife was also deprived of hers and did not get another for three years. On Christmas Day, 1951, a dynamite bomb exploded beneath Moore's four-room cottage in an orange grove near Florida. The explosion wrecked the house and blew the Moores and their bed.

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MOORE, Harry T., d. 1951; AFRICAN American leadership; RACE discrimination; POLICE brutality; EQUAL pay for equal work; AFRICAN Americans -- Employment; SOUTHERN States; UNITED States
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