Amzie Moore (September 23, 1911 —- ) was an African American, civil rights leader, and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta. September 23 is the 266th day of the year (267th in leap years). ... 1911 (MCMXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... An African American (also Afro-American, Black American, or simply black), is a member of an ethnic group in the United States whose ancestors, usually in predominant part, were indigenous to Africa. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

He was one of nearly one million blacks who fought World War II in Europe and Asia. Like many others, he hoped to capture the freedom they had fought for and helped to win as soldiers upon their return home. Moore was born on the Wilkin plantation near the Grenada and Carroll County lines. Proud of his family roots, Moore liked to tell about his grandfather, a slave who lived to be 104. “He couldn't read or write, yet he accumulated more than a section of land and had [about] … twenty thousand dollars … saved when he died."^{[citation needed]} Combatants Allies: Poland, British Commonwealth, France/Free France, Soviet Union, United States, China, and others Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan, and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total dead: 50 million Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total dead: 12 million World War II... Carroll County is a county located in the state of Mississippi. ...

Left on his own at fourteen after his mother died in 1925, Moore completed high school but could not realize his dream of a college education. Through the rest of his life, he succeeded in becoming a self-educated person.

Even before leaving Mississippi to fight in the war, Moore was involved in race relations, once organizing a successful rally of 10,000 blacks in his hometown. Moore served over three and a half years in the U.S. Army before returning to his job at the U. S. Post Office where he had worked since 1935. Race relations are relations between races, sometimes involving racism. ... The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... A USPS Truck at Night A U.S. Post Office sign The United States Postal Service (USPS) is the United States government organization responsible for providing postal service in the United States and is generally referred to as the post office. ...

After the war, Moore opened a gas station, beauty shop, and grocery store on Highway 61 in Cleveland, Mississippi. His business also served as headquarters for the area’s civil rights efforts. The Dubuque-Wisconsin Bridge, Dubuque, Iowa. ... Cleveland is a city located in Bolivar County, Mississippi. ... Historically, the Civil Rights Movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately one generation (1960-1980) wherein there was much worldwide civil unrest and popular rebellion. ...

Beginning in 1951, Moore, Aaron Henry and Medgar Evers all worked with Dr. T.R.M. Howard, a self-made entrepreneur, fraternal organization leader, and surgeon, to build the Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL). The RCNL sought to encourage entrepreneurship, self-help, and civil rights in the Delta. Moore also belonged to the United Order of Friendship, a fraternal society headed by Howard to provide low-cost medical care to blacks. Aaron Henry (1922-1997) was a civil rights leader, politician, and head of the NAACP. He was born in Dublin, Mississippi to Ed and Mattie Henry who were sharecroppers. ... Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi. ... Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard (T.R.M. Howard) (March 4, 1908 —- May 1, 1976) was an African American civil rights leader, fraternal organization leader, surgeon, and entrepreneur. ... The Regional Council of Negro Leadership (RCNL) was probably the leading civil rights organization in Mississippi during the early 1950s. ...

In August of 1955, as word first got out that Emmett Till was missing, Medgar Evers and Amzie Moore quickly became involved, disguising themselves as cotton pickers and going into the cotton fields searching for anything that would help find the young Delta visitor. Moore surmised, after collecting stories first hand from the field laborers, that “more than 2,000 families” had been murdered and lynched over the years, with their bodies thrown into the region’s swamps, rivers and bayous. Emmett Louis Bobo Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955) was an African-American teenager from Chicago, Illinois who was brutally lynched in a region of Mississippi known as the Mississippi Delta near the small town of Drew in Sunflower County. ... Red states are Mississippi Delta states or states that border the Mississippi River The Mississippi Delta is a geographical and political term that may be used in various ways. ...

Moore conceived of the voter registration campaign that later became the centerpiece of Freedom Summer in 1964. The local leader welcomed outside help including SNCC organizer Robert Moses, coming into the Delta from New York City to build the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee or SNCC. Moses later said that Moore was a guiding force from the start. Moore's gas station offered the only restrooms for black drivers between Memphis and Vicksburg. His house was used as a "revolving dormitory" and "safe house" for activists during the movement's voter-registration drives in the 1960s, recalled Margaret Block, a friend who knew and worked with Moore during the movement. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Andrew Young, and John Lewis; Thurgood Marshall, and Rev. Jesse Jackson were some of his guests, Block said.^{[citation needed]} Freedom Summer was a campaign in the United States launched during the summer of 1964 to attempt to register as many African American voters as possible in the southern states. ... Robert Moses (1888–1981) Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was the master builder of 20th century New York City and its suburbs. ... Flag Seal Nickname: The Big Apple, The Capital of the World[1], Gotham Location Location in the state of New York Government Counties (Boroughs) Bronx (The Bronx) New York (Manhattan) Queens (Queens) Kings (Brooklyn) Richmond (Staten Island) Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Geographical characteristics Area    - City 1,214. ... The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC, pronounced snick) was one of the primary institutions of the American Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s. ... Martin Luther King Jr. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... John Lewis is the name of: an American labor leader: see John L. Lewis a philosopher: see John Lewis (philosopher) a jazz pianist: see John Lewis (pianist) an American civil rights activist and member of the U.S. House of Representatives: see John Lewis (politician) a British Singer who released... Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. ... Jesse Jackson The Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson Sr. ...

References

• David T. Beito and Linda Royster Beito, T.R.M. Howard: Pragmatism over Strict Integrationist Ideology in the Mississippi Delta, 1942-1954 in Glenn E. Feldman, ed., Before Brown: Civil Rights and White Backlash in the Modern South (2004 book), 68-95.
• John Dittmer, Local People: the Struggle for Civil Rights in Mississippi (1994 book).
• Charles M. Payne, I've Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (1995 book).