Global Information Lookup Global Information

William Lewis Moore information


William Lewis Moore
Born(1927-04-28)April 28, 1927
Binghamton, New York, U.S.
DiedApril 23, 1963(1963-04-23) (aged 35)
Attalla, Alabama, U.S.
OrganizationCongress of Racial Equality
MovementCivil Rights Movement

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 racial segregation. He was assassinated in Keener, Alabama, during a protest march from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, where he intended to deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett, supporting civil rights.

and 26 Related for: William Lewis Moore information

Request time (Page generated in 0.9389 seconds.)

William Lewis Moore

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 1076

William Moore

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 1122

Emmett Till

Last Update:

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and Amzie Moore, head of the NAACP's Bolivar County chapter, became involved. They disguised...

Word Count : 17424

John Lewis

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 16084

Civil Rights Memorial

Last Update:

Liuzzo Denise McNair Delano Herman Middleton Charles Eddie Moore Oneal Moore William Lewis Moore Mack Charles Parker Lemuel Penn James Reeb John Earl Reese...

Word Count : 950

James Reeb

Last Update:

portal Biography portal Civil rights movement portal Viola Liuzzo William Lewis Moore Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner List of unsolved murders...

Word Count : 2215

Gary Moore

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 7368

Michael Schwerner

Last Update:

Maryland. As activism increased in the South, Schwerner, recruited by John Lewis, and his wife, Rita Schwerner Bender, volunteered to work for National CORE...

Word Count : 1704

Kumbaya

Last Update:

‘Kumbaya’ is not a foreign policy strategy." Additional stanzas by Barry Moore (1973), in "Sing and Rejoice" songbook, Herald Press (1979): In Your Body...

Word Count : 1885

Freedom Riders

Last Update:

not limited to John Lewis (21), Genevieve Hughes (28), Mae Frances Moultrie, Joseph Perkins, Charles Person (18), Ivor Moore, William E. Harbour (19), Joan...

Word Count : 10595

Viola Liuzzo

Last Update:

 Biography  Civil rights movement  Michigan  Mississippi James Reeb William Lewis Moore Murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner List of unsolved murders...

Word Count : 4106

Ruby Bridges

Last Update:

She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation...

Word Count : 2877

NAACP

Last Update:

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'...

Word Count : 9049

Malcolm X

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 18480

Monson Motor Lodge

Last Update:

House). Born in 1854, he was the youngest of eight children, including William F Monson, who became a notable architect/builder in Mandarin, Florida....

Word Count : 1068

Whitney Young

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 3434

Danny Lyon

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 2034

Selma to Montgomery marches

Last Update:

belligerent meeting with a group of civil rights advocates including Bishop Paul Moore, Reverend Robert Spike, and SNCC representative H. Rap Brown. Johnson complained...

Word Count : 13035

The Black and White Minstrel Show

Last Update:

the murder in Alabama in 1963 of 35-year-old white postal worker William Lewis Moore, who marched from Chattanooga, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi...

Word Count : 2104

March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom

Last Update:

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:...

Word Count : 12292

Baseball color line

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 4358

Frederick Douglass

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 20564

Edmund Pettus Bridge

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 2256

Bob Zellner

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 1671

Julian Bond

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 3996

That Was the Week That Was

Last Update:

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...

Word Count : 2509

PDF Search Engine © AllGlobal.net