• William Lewis Moore (April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against...
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  • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Amzie Moore, head of the NAACP's Bolivar County chapter, became involved. They disguised...
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  • William Moore, and variations of William such as Will, Willie, Bill or Billy Moore, may refer to: Billy Moore (musician, born 1917) (1917–1989), American...
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    Liuzzo Denise McNair Delano Herman Middleton Charles Eddie Moore Oneal Moore William Lewis Moore Mack Charles Parker Lemuel Penn James Reeb John Earl Reese...
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    John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives...
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  • portal Biography portal Civil rights movement portal Viola Liuzzo William Lewis Moore Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner List of unsolved murders...
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    Robert William Gary Moore (4 April 1952 – 6 February 2011) was a Northern Irish musician. Over the course of his career, he played in various groups and...
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    Maryland. As activism increased in the South, Schwerner, recruited by John Lewis, and his wife, Rita Schwerner Bender, volunteered to work for National CORE...
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    She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...
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    of Minnesota Press. p. 51. ISBN 978-0-8166-1336-6. Lomax 1963, p. 172. Moore 1987, p. 198. Pollack 2013, p. 4. Marable & Felber 2013, p. 492. Norwood...
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    ‘Kumbaya’ is not a foreign policy strategy." Additional stanzas by Barry Moore (1973), in "Sing and Rejoice" songbook, Herald Press (1979): In Your Body...
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  • and electric shocks. It gained a groundbreaking Supreme Court decision in Moore v. Dempsey 261 U.S. 86 (1923) that significantly expanded the Federal courts'...
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    Greater Rochester International Airport. On January 18, 2023, Governor Wes Moore was sworn in as governor of Maryland on a Bible owned by Douglass. In October...
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  • and Lewis kept his promise. Paddy had earlier introduced Lewis to his mother, Janie King Moore, and a friendship quickly sprang up between Lewis, who...
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  •  Biography  Civil rights movement  Michigan  Mississippi James Reeb William Lewis Moore Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner List of unsolved murders...
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    House). Born in 1854, he was the youngest of eight children, including William F Monson, who became a notable architect/builder in Mandarin, Florida....
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    Whitney Moore Young Jr. (July 31, 1921 – March 11, 1971) was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career...
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  • the murder in Alabama in 1963 of 35-year-old white postal worker William Lewis Moore, who marched from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi...
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    belligerent meeting with a group of civil rights advocates including Bishop Paul Moore, Reverend Robert Spike, and SNCC representative H. Rap Brown. Johnson complained...
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    ISBN 978-0-7565-3339-7. Retrieved May 20, 2013. Full Text of John Lewis' Speech ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive Lewis, John; Michael D'Orso (1998). Walking With the Wind:...
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    John Lewis, a civil rights leader who played a prominent role in the Selma to Montgomery marches and later a congressman. Support in honor of Lewis' name...
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    not limited to John Lewis (21), Genevieve Hughes (28), Mae Frances Moultrie, Joseph Perkins, Charles Person (18), Ivor Moore, William E. Harbour (19), Joan...
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  • 2012 biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick. Joseph Thomas Moore wrote in his 1988 biography of Doby, "Bill Veeck planned to buy the Philadelphia...
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    John Lewis had given at a church on his first day in Cairo. After his speech Lewis left to go attend a sit-in, Lyon was impressed by this, Lewis was putting...
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    Archived from the original on June 30, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2007. Moore, Doug (January 16, 2011). "MLK events in Missouri form man's legacy". St...
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    constructed to provide electricity for a cityi; it was built n 1887. William Lewis Moore, a white U.S. postman and civil rights activist, was murdered here...
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    2000, p. 208. Lewis 2009, p. 133. Lewis 2009, pp. 152, 158. Marshall 2013, p. 128. Lewis 2009, p. 215. Lewis 2009, pp. 248–249. Lewis 2009, pp. 249–252...
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    wrong". Following the 1963 murder of 35-year-old white postal worker William Lewis Moore in Alabama, who was on a protest march against segregation in the...
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    rights leader John Lewis in a bitter contest. During it Bond was accused of using cocaine and other drugs. During the campaign, Lewis challenged Bond to...
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  • James Bevel and led by Martin Luther King Jr., Hosea Williams, and John Lewis. The film stars actors David Oyelowo as King, Tom Wilkinson as President...
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