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Product details
- ISBN 9780813028378
- Weight: 521g
- Dimensions: 159 x 240mm
- Publication Date: 19 Feb 2005
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Before Martin Luther King, Jr. began to preach from his pulpit in Montgomery, Alabama, before the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision, and before Rosa Park's famous bus ride, a man named Harry T. Moore tolled 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 back roads of the state on a mission to educate, evangelize, and organize. On Christmas night in 1951, in Mims, Florida, a bomb placed under his bed ended Harry Moore's life. His wife, Harriette, died of her wounds a week later. Although Florida's governor reopened the case in 1991, no one was ever convicted of this crime. Using previously unavailable FBI files, Green introduces his readers to the good and the bad, the villainous and the virtuous, in Jim Crow Florida. In doing so, he offers a poignant and gripping memorial to the pioneering work of Harry T. Moore, one of the earliest martyrs of the modern civil rights movement.
Ben Green is a professional journalist and the author of The Soldier of Fortune Murders and Finest Kind. He is also on the faculty of Florida State University.
