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Civil Rights Activist (1906 1951)
A native of Suwannee County, Harry T. Moore was president of the Brevard County Branch of the NAACP and later president, then state coordinator, of the Florida Conference of the NAACP. For seventeen years, Moore traveled through Florida, organizing NAACP branches, investigating lynchings, protesting acts of police brutality and organizing voter registration campaigns. On Christmas Eve 1951, a bomb planted under Moore's small six-room cottage in Mims killed Moore and his wife, Henrietta. The case remains open at the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. Stetson Kennedy, a white civil rights activist, has pursued the unsolved case for 40 years. "He would have done the same for me," Kennedy said.
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