Historic Interest...
Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Homesite...
The Cultural Center and Park property is the former homesite of civil rights activists Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore, two people whose lives were committed to help Florida's Negro communities unte to form a collective identity.
Featured exhibit...
The Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Memorial Park & Cultural Center offers a historic timeline of the Civil Rights Movement proceeding from The Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 through The Civil Rights Act of July 2, 1964. Major contributions of Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore to the Civil Rights Movement are depicted parallel to other events of national renown in American history.
As concerned parents and educators...
the Moores became leading local and national civil rights activists who organized the first Brevard County Branch of the NAACP. They remained instrumental in the NAACP and the fight for equality and justice until their untimely deaths.
In 1951, on Christmas night and the Moores’ twenty-fifth wedding anniversary...
a bomb exploded under their Mims home killing Mr. Moore and fatally injuring Mrs. Moore. Mr. Moore died on the way to the hospital and Mrs. Moore died January 3, 1952, two days after the funeral for Mr. Moore.
Learn More About the Moores...
- Visit the Center
- Books, Historical —
Before His Time: The Untold Story Of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr, New York: Free Press, 1999; University Press of Florida; New Ed edition (February 17, 2005)
African Americans in Florida By Maxine Deloris Jones, Kevin M. McCarthy, Pineapple Press Inc , 1993
Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988
edited by Brenda Gayle Plummer, UNC Press, 2003
- Books, Historical Fiction —
Lay that Trumpet in Our Hands, Susan Carol McCarthy, Bantam, 2003
- Video—
Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore, University of California Extension Center for Media and Independent Learning
- Moore Murder Investigation—
www.myfloridalegal.com/HarryMoore
Executive Summary - PDF
- Articles—
A Briefcase of Racial Violence
Personal Papers Returned to Daughter
Results of Harry T. Moore Murder Investigation
Harry T. Moore -- Black Biography
