Amzie moore biography of christopher

Cleveland in Bolivar County, Mississippi — The American South (East South Central)

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Mississippi Freedom Trail

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Amzie Moore. . , Returning home from world war two, Cleveland businessman Amzie Moore (1911-1982) became a principal architect of early civil rights activism as a founding member of the Mississippi NAACP and the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. Convinced that political power was the key to obtaining civil rights, he planned and led voter registration projects. Moore persuaded SNCC organizer Bob Moses to recruit students for campaigns, setting the stage for Freedom Summer of 1964., Amzie Moore worked for the U.S. Postal Service from 1935 to 1968 and also operated a service station with a restaurant and a beauty parlor. He served in the army during world war two, and during the early 1950s, after his Amzie moore.