Moore Resources

Bibliography, Resources & Suggested Reading

Clark, James C. “Civil Rights Leader Harry T. Moore and the Ku Klux Klan in Florida.” The Florida Historical Quarterly Vol. 73, No. 2 (October 1994): 166-183.

Corsair, Gary. The Groveland Four: The Sad Saga of a Legal Lynching. Bloomington: 1st Books, 2003.

Current, Gloster B. “Martyr for a Cause: Christmas Night Bomb Assassination of Harry Moore, NAACP. February 1952.” Civil Rights Movement Veterans.

Documentary Institute. “Biographical Sketch of Harry Moore.” The Legacy of Harry T. Moore.

Documentary Institute. “Letter Addressed to Florida Delegation, U.S. Congress, June 13, 1947.” Moore’s Letters.

Documentary Institute. “Letter Addressed to Florida Governor Fuller Warren, December 2, 1951.” Moore’s Letters.

Emmons, Caroline. "Somebody Has Got to do that Work: Harry T. Moore and the Struggle for African-American Voting Rights in Florida.” The Journal of Negro History Vol. 82, No. 2 (Spring 1997): 232-243.

Green, Ben. Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr. New York: Free Press, 1999.

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd. "The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the Past." The Journal of American History Vol. 91, No. 4 (March 2005): 1233-1263.

James C. Clark Research Papers. Special Collections and University Archives. University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida.

King, Gilbert. Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.

My Florida Legal. “Main Page of Harry Moore Documents.” Personal Documents of Harry Moore.

North Brevard Business Directory. “Letter to Roy Wilkins Regarding Willie James Howard's Lynching, Mims, Fla. March 25, 1944.” Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Research Papers.

North Brevard Business Directory. “Recent Work of The NAACP In Florida, Mims, Florida, January 13, 1947.” Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Research Papers.

Sellers, Laurin. “Briefcase of Moore History Returned.” Orlando Sentinel.

Theoharis, Jeanne. "Black Freedom Studies: Re-Imagining and Redefining the Fundamentals." History Compass Vol. 4, No. 2 (2006): 348-367.

Additional Links

Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex, Inc.

Harry T. & Harriette V. Moore Smithsonian Exhibit

Smithsonian Magazine

South Brevard NAACP