Harry T. Moore was an early civil rights leader, largely forgotten today, who served as the head of the NAACP in Florida. He fought tirelessly to improve conditions for Black workers and investigate lynchings. George Starling briefly joined Moore’s campaign to improve working conditions for Black teachers in the 1930s. The KKK murdered Moore and his wife by bombing their house in 1951, but nobody was ever brought to justice for his murder.
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Harry T. Moore Character Timeline in The Warmth of Other Suns
The timeline below shows where the character Harry T. Moore appears in The Warmth of Other Suns. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Part Four: The Other Side of Jordan
New York, December 1951. George Starling receives disturbing news about Harry T. Moore , a man he once met while working as a substitute teacher in Eustis. Moore...
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Later, Harry T. Moore got involved in a major lynching case in Groveland, near Eustis. A jury sentenced two...
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