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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…
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1 author picked Before His Time as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Before moderating a Smithsonian panel, I mentioned this book to Astronauts Mae Jemison and Leland Melvin.
It prompted a conversation (among people who’d sat atop rockets that shot them into outer space) where they agreed that the most frightened they’d ever been was while driving at night near the Cape Canaveral. The book, about Harry T. Moore’s lonely war against domestic terrorism, lays bare the source of their fear. Murdering Black people was how White Supremacy kept its power in the states where the space program was based.
Florida had the highest lynching rate per capita, and Brevard County, where…
From Richard's list on race and racism in America during the time of the space program.
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