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Article: Charles N. Moore Sr., 95, was activist for the rights of the elderly for 20 years
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- November 3, 1994
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Charles Nicholas Moore Sr., a former streetcar and drawbridge
operator who devoted much of his retirement to the advancement of
rights for the elderly, died of cancer Monday in his home in
Cambridge. He was 95.
Mr. Moore was born in Cambridge in 1899, the year Henry Ford
opened his automobile company in Detroit, Carry Nation began her
anti-saloon campaign in Kansas and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
stole $60,000 from a Union Pacific railroad train in Wilcox Station,
Wyo.
After attending Boston Latin School for three years, he became a
streetcar operator in 1925 and claimed to be the first black to hold
that job in the city of Boston.
From 1934 to 1964, he was a drawbridge operator for ...