Brevard leaders want to replace Confederate general statue with Florida civil rights pioneer (FL)
Posted By Monivette Cordeiro
on Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 7:30 am
... Confederate Gen. Edmund Kirby Smith has represented Florida at the National Statuary Hall for .. a century, but if Brevard County leaders have their way, the figure could soon be replaced by .. civil rights activist Harry T. Moore ...
... Senate Bill 310 .. creates a committee that will recommend three prominent Floridians as potential replacements for Smith ... Each state is allowed two statues at the National Statuary Hall ...
Moore, who was killed with his wife Harriette Moore in a bombing at their .. home, organized more than 50 NAACP branches across Florida ...
"Before Martin Luther King, before Malcolm X, before Medgar Evers, he stood for things that helped with the civil rights movement: the right to vote, equal pay for black teachers, and he investigated the lynchings in Florida," Sonya Mallard, coordinator of the .. Moore Memorial Park and Museum, tells the radio station ...
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