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Harry Tyson Moore (November 18, 1905 – December 25, 1951) was an African-American teacher, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and a pioneer leader of the Civil Rights Movement in Florida and the southern United States. Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette Vyda Simms Moore, also a teacher, were were the victims of a bombing of their home in Mims, Florida on Christmas night 1951. He died in an ambulance on the way to a hospital in Seminole County while she died January 3, 1952 at the hospital in Sanford, Florida. Forensic work in 2005-6 resulted in the naming of the probable perpetrators as four Ku Klux Klan members, all long dead by the time of the investigation.〔("Crist Announces Results of Harry T. Moore Murder Investigation", 16 Aug 2006 ), accessed 6 May 2008〕 The Moores were the first NAACP members to be murdered for civil rights activism; Moore has been called the first martyr of the early stage of the African-American Civil Rights Movement (1896–1954). In the early 1930s Moore had become state secretary for the Florida chapter of the NAACP. Through his registration activities, he greatly increased the number of members, and he worked on issues of housing and education. He investigated lynchings, filed lawsuits against voter registration barriers and white primaries, and worked for equal pay for black teachers in public schools. Moore also led the Progressive Voters League. Following a 1944 US Supreme Court ruling against white primaries, between 1944 and 1950, he succeeded in increasing the registration of black voters in Florida to 31 percent of those eligible to vote, markedly higher than in any other Southern state. In 1946 he and his wife were fired from the public school system because of his activism; he worked full-time for the NAACP. == Early life == Harry T. Moore was born on November 18, 1905, in the small mill town of Houston, Florida. There is little documentation of his parents. His father left before he was born, and his mother died in childbirth. Despite several attempts to locate them, records of Moore's parents have never been found. He was raised in Houston by a woman who he knew as his grandmother. After graduating from high school in 1923, Moore began to help in the fight against segregation. He saw a growing need for change, and wanted to be a part of it.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=PBS - Freedom Never Dies: The Story of Harry T. Moore )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Harry T. Moore」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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