(CIVIL RIGHTS) [MOORE HARRY T] The Script Brevard Countys On

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) [MOORE, HARRY T.] The Script. Brevard County's Only Colored Newspaper. Small folio, paper evenly toned. Cocoa, Florida, 1946-1947

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volume I, number 1 from july 13, 1946, through february 8, 1947 twenty-nine issues with contributions from Harry T. Moore. Moore (1905-1951) was the founder of the first branch of the NAACP in Brevard County, Florida. He was deeply involved in the early civil rights movement, filing the first civil rights lawsuit in the South to equalize salaries of black teachers. As executive director of the NAACP in Florida, Moore became a target of racists, and on Christmas Eve, 1951, Moore and his family were killed when a bomb went off beneath their home. Moore has been called the first martyr of the modern civil rights movement. No copies of the Script are located by OCLC; not observed by Danky and Hady (African-American Newspapers and Periodicals).