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Person · 1911–1982

Amzie Moore

The Mississippi NAACP veteran who brought SNCC into the Delta.

A bridge into the Delta for the [[civil-rights-movement]].

A WWII veteran and businessman, Amzie Moore kept the NAACP alive in the violent Mississippi Delta and convinced Bob Moses to launch the voter-registration work that became Freedom Summer.

On the timeline

  1. June 21, 1964
    Freedom Summer

    Volunteers register Black voters in Mississippi; three are murdered by the Klan.

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