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Article: 48 years after his murder, civil-rights pioneer getting his due.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
- Article date:
- May 12, 1999
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WASHINGTON _ On Christmas night, 1951, a terrorist bomb exploded under the floorboards in Harry T. Moore's home in tiny Mims, Fla. Within hours, the soft-spoken NAACP state coordinator was dead, cutting short his 17-year battle for racial justice.
The device had been carefully placed below Moore's bedroom, where he and his wife, Harriette, had retired after celebrating the holiday and their 25th wedding anniversary. The blast left an 18- by 24-inch hole in the ground, and turned much of the wood-frame house into kindling. Harriette, fatally injured as well, died several weeks later.
At the time of Moore's death, Martin Luther King Jr. was still in ...
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...Veteran Harry Moore produced a good time in the 1,000th race of his career. Moore, who has been running more than 40 races a year for the last 24 years, ran the last of the Yeovilton 5k series last week. He finished with his second-fastest ...
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