
Before His Time by Ben Green
On Christmas night, 1951, a bomb exploded in Mims, Florida, under the home of civil rights activist and educator Harry T. Moore. Harry and his wife Harriette both died from injuries sustained in the blast, making them the first martyrs of the contemporary civil rights movement. They were killed twelve years before Medgar Evers, fourteen years before Malcolm X, and seventeen years before Martin Luther King, Jr. The sound of the bomb could be heard three miles away in the neighboring town of Titusville, but what resonates today is the memory of the important civil rights work accomplished by Moore. This new edition of Ben Green's comprehensive biography of Harry T. Moore includes updated material about the investigations into the bombing, and additional photographs commemorating Moore's legacy.Green was a veterinarian who worked in one of North America's last major horse-breeding regions. He later retired from his profession and relocated to Cumby, Texas, where he maintained horses and cattle until his death in 1974.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781886104938 |
| ISBN 10 | 188610493X |
| Title | Before His Time |
| Author | Ben Green |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Florida Historical Society Press |
| Year published | 2017-12-15 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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