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William Lewis Moore
For other people named William Moore, see William Moore (disambiguation).
American postal worker, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) (1927–1963)
William Lewis Moore (April 28, 1927 – April 23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against racial segregation.
He was assassinated in Keener, Alabama, during a protest march from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, where he intended to deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett, supporting civil rights.
Life
Moore was born in Binghamton, New York, and raised in New York and Mississippi.
For a time before his death he lived in Baltimore, Maryland.
In the early 1950s, when Moore was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, he had a mental breakdown.
William lewis moore biography books
He was institutionalized for a year and a half with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. After being released, he became an activist on behalf of the mentally ill. He gradually got involved