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FL S1638
Resolution
Status
Passed
4/28/2015
Primary Sponsor
Geraldine Thompson
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AI Summary
- Commemorates the 50th Anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by honoring civil rights pioneers Harry T. Moore and Harriette Vyda Simms Moore
- Harry T. Moore founded the Brevard County NAACP Chapter in 1934 and organized the Florida State Conference of the NAACP in 1941, serving as its unpaid executive secretary
- Moore's Progressive Voters' League, organized in 1944, registered over 116,000 black voters in Florida over six years, representing 31 percent of eligible black voters in the state
- Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette were killed on Christmas Day 1951 by a bomb placed under their home; Harriette died nine days later from injuries sustained in the blast
- The murders of Harry T. Moore and Harriette Vyda Simms Moore remain unsolved
Legislative Description
Harriette Vyda Simms Moore and Harry T. Moore
Last Action
Adopted
4/28/2015
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