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100 1 $aGreen, Ben,$d1951-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85008644
245 10 $aBefore his time :$bthe untold story of Harry T. Moore, America's first civil rights martyr /$cBen Green.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $avii, 310 pages :$billustrations ;$c24 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 257-294) and index.
520 $aFifty years ago - before Martin Luther King, Jr., began to preach from his pulpit in Montgomery, Alabama, the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, or Rosa Parks's famous bus ridea man named Harry T. Moore toiled in Jim Crow Florida on behalf of the NAACP and the Progressive Voters' League. For seventeen years, in an era of official indifference and outright hostility, the soft-spoken but resolute Moore traveled the backroads of the state on a mission to educate, evangelize, and organize.
520 8 $aBut on Christmas night in 1951, in a small orange grove in tiny Mims, Florida, a bomb placed under a bed ended Harry Moore's life. Although his daughters, Peaches and Evangeline, survived, his wife, Harriette, died of her wounds a week later. Unjustly neglected until now, Moore's death stands as the first in what was to be a long and tragic line of assassinations in the civil rights movement.
520 8 $aIt was Moore's defense of the Groveland Four - black youths accused, under murky circumstances, of raping a white woman in Lake County - that drew the wrath of the Ku Klux Klan and pitted him against one of the most feared and vilified sheriffs in the country. Two of the Groveland Four were shot - one fatally - in the custody of Sheriff Willis McCall, who despite fifty investigations and a litany of racial scandals would remain in office for nearly thirty years.
520 8 $aBen Green revisits the people and circumstances surrounding Harry Moore's death, and brings alive a cast of characters worthy of Harper Lee or Flannery O'Connor.
520 8 $aThe governor of Florida reopened the case of Harry Moore's murder in 1991. Although the investigation revealed for the first time that the Klan was almost certainly responsible for Moore's death, no one was put behind bars. Bringing a fresh eye to the newly available FBI files. Green offers a reckoning of the good and the bad, the villainous and the virtuous.
600 10 $aMoore, Harry T.,$d1905-1951.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr94037111
600 10 $aMoore, Harry T.,$d1905-1951$xAssassination.
610 20 $aNational Association for the Advancement of Colored People$vBiography.
650 0 $aAfrican American civil rights workers$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100464
650 0 $aCivil rights workers$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008117694
650 0 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100199
650 0 $aTrials (Rape)$zFlorida$zGroveland.
651 0 $aFlorida$xRace relations.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009125599
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