Harry T. Moore, NAACP Florida Director, Assassinated by Klan Bomb

On Christmas night 1951, a bomb planted under the floor of Harry T. Moore's home in Mims, Florida explodes. Moore, the NAACP's Florida director and executive director of the Progressive Voters League who had registered 100,000 Black voters, dies on the way to the hospital. His wife Harriette dies nine days later. Moore had investigated the Groveland Boys case and the lynching of Jesse James Payne. The FBI investigates but no one is ever prosecuted. Moore is the first NAACP leader assassinated.