Moore, Harriette Vyda b. June 18, 1902 d. January 3, 1952 Social Reformer. Wife of early Civil Rights Martyr Harry T. Moore. She was a black teacher in segregated Florida and supported and assisted her husbands efforts in winning equal rights for African Americans. On Christmas Day, 1951, a bomb that was planted under their home exploded, killing Harry. Harriette succumbed to her injuries nine days later. The crime remains unsolved. LaGrange Cemetery, Mims, Brevard County, Florida, USA
Moore, Harry T. b. October 18, 1905 d. December 25, 1951 Harry T. Moore was a black educator in Florida during the days of segregation. In 1934 he started the Brevard County NAACP. In 1937, Moore filed the first lawsuit in the Deep South to equalize black and white teacher salaries, backed by NAACP attorney Thurgood Marshall in New York. The case was eventually lost in court, but it spawned many other federal lawsuits in Florida that eventually led to equal salaries for teachers of all races. In 1941 he organized the Florida State Conference of the...[Read More] LaGrange Cemetery, Mims, Brevard County, Florida, USA
Titus, Henry Theodore b. February 13, 1823 d. August 7, 1881 The first of nine children, raised in Wilkes Barre, Pa. In 1845 he was a postal inspector in Philadelphia. Titus was a leader of the Narciso Lopez filibuster expeditions that invaded Cuba in 1850-1851. He was a grocer and sawmill operator in Jacksonville, Florida, until migrating with his family to "Bleeding Kansas" in April 1856 to join pro-slavery forces. Resided at "Fort Titus," a double-log cabin one mile south of Lecompton, that came under artillery attack from John Brown's raiders on Aug...[Read More] (Bio by: Antonio de la Cova) LaGrange Cemetery, Mims, Brevard County, Florida, USA
b. June 18, 1902 d. January 3, 1952