How Did Harry T. Moore Impact Florida

Harry T. Moore’s Impact on Florida
While there are many influential African-Americans that helped shape Florida today, I chose to write about a man who made significant changes around Florida and also here in my community, Harry T. Moore. Harry believed in equal rights for black people. He worked hard to secure black people’s rights. He has made history and is very well known for what he has done.
I decided to write about him because I went to the Harry T. Moore Center and was very intrigued. Harry started off as a school teacher and saw that black teachers were not getting equal pay so he decided to step up and say something about it. Harry was very committed to what he believed in. He knew it would be hard to make equal rights but he kept trying. Harry also fought for black people’s voting rights.
Harry taught fourth grade in Cocoa, Florida at the only black elementary school they had. During his first year in Brevard County, he met Harriette Vyda Simms who was three years older than he was. She was also a school teacher but was selling insurance at the time that they met. Within a year Harry and Harriette got married. Their family lived in Mims, a small town outside of Titusville. They built their own house near Harriette’s parent’s house. Harry was given a new job. He became principal of the Titusville Colored …show more content…
Sadly he was fired for trying to make equal pay for black teachers. “Harry T. Moore organized the first Brevard County branch of the NAACP in 1934 and became its president. He would later travel throughout the state organizing branches and in 1941 organized and became President of the Florida State Conference of NAACP branches. In 1945 he formed the Florida Progressive Voter's League and became its Executive Director. This group was instrumental in helping register over 100,000 black voters in Florida” (“Who Were Harry

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