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Article: First civil rights activist assassinated; documented on PBS

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January 24, 2001
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New York Amsterdam News
01-24-2001
First civil rights activist assassinated; documented on PBS

In 1951, after celebrating Christmas Day, civil rights activist Harry T.
Moore and his wife, Harriette, retired to bed in their white frame house,
tucked inside a small orange grove in Mims, Fla. Ten minutes later, a bomb
shattered their house and their lives. Also shattered was any hope that the
South was ready to give up centuries of white supremacy for a new era of
racial equality without a bloody fight.

"Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore" explores the life and
times of this enigmatic leader, a distinguished schoolteacher whose
passionate crusade for equal rights could not be ...

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