Podcast appearances and mentions of Harry T Moore

203: Finding Success as a New Nonprofit Leader (Aaron Randolph)SUMMARYHow do you find success as a new nonprofit leader? Starting any new business is difficult, and while similar, starting a nonprofit has a whole host of unique complexities. In Episode #203 of Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership, Aaron Randolph shares his best advice for others looking to start, fund and run a successful nonprofit organization. Aaron navigated the “big three” - new leader, new organization, new community – and thoughtfully recounts the lessons learned that can help you as well.  Specifically, we explore four key functions of successful senior leadership and the value of conducting a thorough community assessment.  ABOUT AARONAaron Randolph is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Carolina Youth Coalition (CYC), a nonprofit organization that nurtures and propels high-achieving, under-resourced students to and through college. Aaron earned his Master's in Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 2013 and a B.A. from Cornell University in 2011. A native of Lake City, FL, he relocated to Charlotte, NC in 2017 with his wife, Lizzy, from Baton Rouge, LA. Driven by a fervent belief in the power of education to create lasting generational change, Aaron began his career in education as a City Year AmeriCorps member and social studies teacher before finding a passion for college access work through joining the Baton Rouge Youth Coalition staff in 2015. Since moving to Charlotte, Aaron has led Carolina Youth Coalition's launch and growth from serving 40 students in 2018 to over 300 high school and college students this school year. Through CYC, students in the program have earned over $45 million in scholarships and grants and two-thirds are attending four-year universities across the state and across the country completely debt-free.EPISODE TOPICS & RESOURCESDriving from the Backseat: Tips for Surviving as a Not-for-Profit CEO by Ronnie L. BryantWant to hear more from Ronnie Bryant? Listen to Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership episode #23Learn more about Aaron and Carolina Youth Coalition hereBefore His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr by Ben GreenCheck out Patton's new book Your Path to Nonprofit Leadership: Seven Keys to Advancing Your Career in the Philanthropic Sector

We continue our Black History Month series with a look at a dark, dark period in Florida's History. The 1920's until the 1960's. Key figures are NAACP President Harry T. Moore who was the victim of an assassination in Titusville in 1951 and Lake County Sheriff Willis McCall whose control over local police departments in Central Florida and connections to the Ku Klux Klan allowed Florida to be the lynching capital of the United States in this period.

UNSOLVED MURDER:   When it comes to Black activism, there are many historical figures whose accomplishments are glossed over.  Before Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this man along with his spouse was America's First Civil Rights Martyr. This is the story of Harry T. and Harriette Moore. "I don't want a Black history month. Black history is American history." - Morgan Freeman, Actor/DirectorLOST LOVED ONE:Harry & Harriette Moore |  https://naacp.org/find-resources/history-explained/civil-rights-leaders/harry-t-and-hariette-mooreARTICLES/SOURCES: Black History Month: https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/black-history-month | https://www.blackhistorymonth.gov/ Harry T. Moore Letters: https://www.pbs.org/harrymoore/resources/book.html  Ben Green Book, Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore, America's First Civil Rights Martyr https://www.amazon.com/Before-His-Time-Untold-Americas/dp/188610493X Activities for children to celebrate BHM: https://www.care.com/c/black-history-month-for-kids-activities/ Background Music By: Just DiVine https://linktr.ee/JDivine911 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Florida's history of racial violence is examined in this episode. Our guest is Tameka Hobbs, Executive Director of the A. Philip Randolph Institute at Edward Waters University. She authored the book "Democracy Abroad, Lynching at Home: Racial Violence in Florida" and lectures on this topic through the Florida Humanities. Among the numerous critical discussion points you may want more information on are redlining, Harry T. Moore, the Ocoee Massacre and the Equal Justice Initiative. For a full list of publications by Dr. Hobbs, visit https://tamekabradleyhobbs.com/.To learn more about the A. Philip Randolph Institute at Edward Waters University, visit https://www.ew.edu/apri/.You can follow Dr. Hobbs on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/tameka-bradley-hobbs-7064395.Follow Dr. Hobbs on social media: @dr.tamekahobbs on Instagram, Dr. Tameka Bradley Hobbs on Facebook, and @tamekahobbs on Twitter.To learn more about the South Florida People of Color, please visit https://southfloridapoc.org/.Dr. Hobbs can be reached by email at t.hobbs@ewc.edu for questions regarding today's discussion or for inquiries about booking."Welcome to Florida" is presented by Visit Sarasota and Windstorm Products.

On today's episode of our special series, Momentum: Civil Rights in the 1950s, Sharon continues a riveting conversation with pulitzer-prize winning author, Gilbert King. We pick up with the involvement of J.Edgar Hoover and the case of The Groveland Four, including the political dance Thurgood Marshall did with Hoover to strategically move the Civil Rights movement forward. Often flying under the radar in history, Florida, for some years, was far worse than higher profile areas in the Cotton Belt when it came to violent acts against Civil Rights advocates and the Black community. Florida had the highest per-capita rate of lynching of any state in the country, but as the land of “surf and sun,” it did not fit the narrative of the broader movement of the Civil Rights era that followed Brown vs. the Board of Education. What does “tranquility of the South” have to do with an investigation that was quashed by a U.S. attorney? How did the momentum of a diligent author lead to the exoneration of The Groveland Four 72 years after their arrests? And how did the work of Harry T. Moore and Harriette T. Moore single handedly change the voting demographics, and sacrificed their lives for? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Juneteenth is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the emancipation of enslaved African Americans. Juneteenth marks the anniversary of the announcement of General Order No. 3 by Union Army general Gordon Granger on June 19, 1865, proclaiming freedom for enslaved people in Texas. Originating in Galveston, the holiday has been celebrated annually on June 19 in various parts of the United States since the 1860s, often broadly celebrating African-American culture. The day was first recognized as a federal holiday in June 2021, when President Joe Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act into law.Early celebrations date to 1866, at first involving church-centered community gatherings in Texas. They spread across the South and became more commercialized in the 1920s and 1930s, often centering on a food festival. Participants in the Great Migration out of the South carried their celebrations to other parts of the country. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, these celebrations were eclipsed by the nonviolent determination to achieve civil rights, but grew in popularity again in the 1970s with a focus on African American freedom and African-American arts. Beginning with Texas by proclamation in 1938, and by legislation in 1979, each U.S. state and the District of Columbia have formally recognized the holiday in some way. With its adoption in certain parts of Mexico, the holiday became an international holiday. Juneteenth is celebrated by the Mascogos, descendants of Black Seminoles who escaped from slavery in 1852 and settled in Coahuila, Mexico.Celebratory traditions often include public readings of the Emancipation Proclamation, singing traditional songs such as "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" and "Lift Every Voice and Sing", and the reading of works by noted African-American writers, such as Ralph Ellison and Maya Angelou. Some Juneteenth celebrations also include rodeos, street fairs, cookouts, family reunions, park parties, historical reenactments, and Miss Juneteenth contests. In 2021, Juneteenth became the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was adopted in 1983.For more podcasts visit, www.steveryan.comSupport the show

In this episode I spoke with Ben Green about Harry T. Moore. Green is the author of the biography of Moore titled Before His Time: The Untold Story of Harry T. Moore America's First Civil Rights Martyr. During Moore's time the state of Florida did not have teacher unions, more professional organizations but under his leadership the professional organizations operated as a union by suing the state of Florida to equalize pay between White and Black teachers and administrators. The school system that canceled the workshop on Florida and the civil rights movement was Osceola County not Miami-Dade.

On this week's episode we talk about the unsolved Christmas Day murder of Harry T. Moore, a civil rights pioneer who was assassinated in his home along side his wife on December 25th, 1951. We also discuss the Groveland 4 and the man known as Catts, so join us in these Bloodthirsty Times. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/bloodthirsty-times/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/bloodthirsty-times/support

Black College students hand out over 300 Black baby dolls as Christmas presents to boost Black girls' self-esteem; Harry T. Moore helped thousands of African Americans register to vote. It led to his assassination on Christmas night 1951; 3rd Day of Kwanzaa: Ujima (Collective Work & Responsibility) - TheAHNShow with Michael Imhotep 12-28-21   Support The African History Network through Cash App @ https://cash.app/$TheAHNShow or PayPal @ TheAHNShow@gmail.com or http://www.PayPal.me/TheAHNShow or visit http://www.AfricanHistoryNetwork.com and click on the yellow “Donate” button.

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For nearly two decades, a Black couple in Florida took on some of the state's most insidious civil rights violations. Leveraging the political power of the NAACP, Harry T. Moore advocated for fair elections, equal pay, and on behalf of the Groveland Boys in the notorious rape case. On Christmas Day 1951, the Moores were murdered after a bomb exploded under their house.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The Context of White Supremacy hosts The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We’ll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We’ll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS Much like the White Terrorism that took the lives of Dr. Harry T. Moore and his wife Henrietta in 1951, Nashville, Tennessee had all pretense of holiday cheered destroyed when a bomb inside an RV detonated, injuring three people. No suspects have been arrested for the blast. Suspicion about the covid-19 vaccines remains even while reported rates of infection and death rise. Tragically, a black doctor in Indiana, Dr. Susan Moore, reported receiving substandard medical treatment while battling Covid-19. She died. The hospital is allegedly reviewing records of how she was treated while in their care. Outrage continues in Chicago about video footage of police sexual assault of Anjanette Young. No officers have yet to be terminated. #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Cash App: https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE: 564943#

Saturday, December 26th 9:00PM Eastern/ 6:00PM Pacific The Context of White Supremacy hosts The Context of White Supremacy hosts the weekly Compensatory Call-In. We encourage non-white listeners to dial in with their codified concepts, new terms, observations, research findings, workplace problems or triumphs, and/or suggestions on how best to Replace White Supremacy With Justice ASAP. We’ll use these sessions to hone our use of words as tools to reveal truth, neutralize White people. We’ll examine news reports from the past seven days and – hopefully – promote a constructive dialog. #ANTIBLACKNESS Much like the White Terrorism that took the lives of Dr. Harry T. Moore and his wife Henrietta in 1951, Nashville, Tennessee had all pretense of holiday cheered destroyed when a bomb inside an RV detonated, injuring three people. No suspects have been arrested for the blast. Suspicion about the covid-19 vaccines remains even while reported rates of infection and death rise. Tragically, a black doctor in Indiana, Dr. Susan Moore, reported receiving substandard medical treatment while battling Covid-19. She died. The hospital is allegedly reviewing records of how she was treated while in their care. Outrage continues in Chicago about video footage of police sexual assault of Anjanette Young. No officers have yet to be terminated. #BlackMisandry INVEST in The COWS – http://paypal.me/TheCOWS Invest in The C.O.W.S. - https://cash.app/$TheCOWS CALL IN NUMBER: 720.716.7300 CODE 564943# The C.O.W.S. Radio Program is specifically engineered for black & non-white listeners - Victims of White Supremacy. The purpose of this program is to provide Victims of White Supremacy with constructive information and suggestions on how to counter Racist Woman & Racist Man. Phone: 1-605-313-5164 - Access Code 564943# Hit star *6 & 1 to enter caller cue

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A Florida Time reader reads us a story about Harry T. Moore, an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the first branch of the  (NAACP) in Brevard County and president of the state chapter of the NAACP. Read more about Harry Moore: Harry T. Moore helped thousands of blacks register to vote. It led to his assassination on Christmas night “Reader Rewind” is a digital radio show featuring the personal histories of Floridians from around the state -- and even the country. The goal is simple: Florida doesn’t just belong to historian and Florida Time columnist Eliot Kleinberg. It belongs to everyone: natives, transplants and vacationers alike. Reader Rewind features the oral histories of Florida Time readers. They call in, they share their story, we edit it into a show and voila! Take a listen and consider sharing yours today: (850) 270-8418. And if you love this taste of Florida history, get a whole plate full every Friday by signing up for the Florida Time newsletter. This weekly email is a forum for subscribers to learn something new and to educate others about the amazing history of Florida. Our home.

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You are tired and sleepy and can’t wait to lay your weary body down. Finally, you settle down and your mind drifts off into the abyss. You hear a voice in the distance; and you strain to make it out. The voice is faint; yet, telling the unfiltered history of the 1951 murder of Harry T. Moore. “Who is Harry T. Moore?” you ask yourself, and “Why should I listen to this voice?” But the voice is so commanding, authoritative, knowledgeable, and passionate that you can’t stop listening to what it is saying, and wondering, “What did Moore do?” “What makes his story any different from the hundreds of other Blacks, who were killed or lynched in the south?” Before you can complete your thought, the voice responds, “Harry T. Moore was fighting for the civil rights of Blacks long before The Civil Rights Movement began in Florida.” The voice continues and by the time it ceases speaking, you know about the racial climate in the 1920s, 30s, and 40s and the historical struggle for voter rights in the state of Florida. You learn why Harry T. Moore was the most "courageous man" in Florida, next to Osceola, Leader of the Seminoles himself, and how he became Florida's first civil rights martyr. You also learn the roles the KKK and the NAACP played in Moore's rise and death in 1951. You begin to understand the connection of the former Lake County “High Sheriff,” Willis V. McCall and what former Florida Governor Charlie Crist found in his investigation of the Moore murder, and more. You wonder further, "What happened to his family?" "Did he have a wife and children?" “Not to worry,” the voice says. “Just keep listening. You awake, suddenly. You raise your head and stretch, as you rub your eyes and think, “Did I dream about the murder of someone I never met or heard of? Was he real? How could I know in such details and facts of Florida’s racial history?” Then you realize, you fell asleep listening to the latest episode of Through Black Eyes; Unfiltered, The Civil Rights Movement in Florida: “Who is Harry T. Moore?” and what has now become of his legacy.

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His name may not be familiar to you but Harry T. Moore was the first martyr of the American Civil Rights Movement. He and his wife were murdered in their Florida home on Christmas Day 1951. Who killed the Moores? And why? Read full show notes and learn more about Harry T Moore at southernmysteries.com Connect with Southern MysteriesWebsite https://southernmysteries.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/southernmysteriespodcast/Twitter https://twitter.com/mysteriespodEmail southernmysteriespodcast@gmail.com MusicTheme Song “Dark & Troubled” by Panthernburn. Special thanks to Phillip St Ours for permission for use. Background Music: "Ever Mindful", "Passing Time", "Beyond" , "Almost in F Tranquility", "Ossuary 6-Air", "Dark Times", "Done in D", "Long Note One", "Long Note Two", "Peace of Mind", "Ever Mindful" by Kevin MacLeod Licensed Under Creative Commons

On this episode we take a look at the deaths of blues musician Johnny Ace, Japanese serial killer Hiroaki Hadaka, Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausecu, and civil rights leader Harry T. Moore, all of whom died in horrible ways on Christmas. With a word from Give Me Murder or Give Me Death and That's Weird and music by Twisted Prophecy.  

History On Christmas Day 1951, Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, had just finished celebrating their silver anniversary when a bomb blew up their home in Mims, Fla. The explosion killed the couple, and they became the first martyrs from civil rights movement the 1950s. For seventeen years, in an era of official indifference and outright hostility, the soft-spoken but resolute Moore traveled the back roads of the state on a mission to educate, evangelize, and organize. On Christmas night in 1951, in Mims, Florida, a bomb placed under his bed ended Harry Moore’s life. His wife, Harriette, died of her wounds a week later. And I bet you have never heard of it. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JR9yuCL56Ec] Armed Citizens News Man shot attempting to break into house in Liberty Eylau Fort Bragg soldier allegedly shoots, kills wife’s attacker at North Carolina home Homeowner shoots suspected burglar in southern Indian River County, Sheriff's Office says Concealed Carry holder holds robbery suspect at gunpoint “We all have dreams. In order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline and effort.”  Jesse Owens  Support http://Crossbreedholsters.com - buy something. Get your concealed Carry insurance at http://USCCA.Blackmanwithagun.com Check out the Law of Self Defense Michael J. Woodland and I on video. [embed]https://youtu.be/JwdOcTIwNKc[/embed]

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This week's pod is a conversation with Death Penalty Information Center Director of Research and Special Projects Robin Konrad. Robin and I spoke about her career, defending Death Row inmates and Glossip v Gross, a landmark case she litigated in front of the United States Supreme Court. Our conversation included talk of our hometown of Lake Worth, Florida (1:00); not wanting to attend college but ending up at Boston University (05:00); thoughts of law school after discovering the story of a civil rights leader in Florida named Harry T. Moore (10:00); Howard Law School (13:00); her clerkship for Judge Damon J. Keith of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (23:00); her move into Capital Habeas work (25:40); our Three Spree segment featuring three places to visit in D.C., three moments in her lifelong Duran Duran fandom, and her three favorite athletes (can she name three?!?!) (29:30); fighting the death penalty in different parts of the country (39:45); arguing Glossip v Gross (41:30) before the SCOTUS; and the debate over the death penalty (59:45).

Rememberinghistory.com Podcast Show January 2017   Hello and welcome back to rememberinghistory.com where we are remembering history and we’re making it. I’m Robin Lofton, the host of this great and groundbreaking show that inspires YOU and YOUR family with stories, experiences, lessons, traditions, and celebrations—all from African American history. That’s right—it’s inspirational. History—in all its forms--can be inspirational. American history, ancient history, European history, music history, history of medicine, history of technology, history of law, women’s history. All kinds of history can be inspirational, instructional and entertaining. And African American history fits the bill in all of these ways.   I remember taking a course on the history of jazz when I was in college. Confession time, I took the class because I heard that it was easy and that I would easily get a good grade. What do you think that I discovered when I actually took the class? It WAS easy and I DID get a good grade. But it was easy because it was so interesting. I listened to and learned about great jazz musicians like Muddy Waters, Louie Armstrong, Count Basie, Chet Baker, Miles Davis and so many others. I learned about how and why jazz (and the blues) developed, how it changed over time and heard amazing true stories about the people who created this form of “folk music”. Yes, history of jazz was easy for me because it was absolutely fascinating. And I’ve been something of a jazz maniac ever since, going to jazz festivals throughout the United States and Europe. One class—one history class—changed me forever. That’s what history can do. I hate “boring stuff”. So you won’t ever find boring stuff here. Okay, let’s get back to the show!   Every month, the rememberinghistory.com podcast show (which is actually called Wiki History) focuses on a theme. The theme for January is: civil rights. I know that you’ve heard of them but what are “civil rights”? Broadly, civil rights (as defined by Wikipedia—and a big shout out to them for their work) is a class of rights that protect individuals' freedom from infringement by governments, social organizations, and private individuals. That’s pretty general but it’s accurate. So, this month, the Wiki History podcast show will have two shows on civil rights.       The first show on civil rights is about the Voting Rights Act of 1965. The Voting Rights Act prohibited discrimination in voting based on race, gender, religion and other characteristics. I think that this is a particularly important time to discuss the Voting Rights Act because the right and ability to vote are (in my humble but educated opinion) at the very heart of democracy. If there is no voter equality then there is really isn’t a functioning or legitimate democracy. So, this will be discussed in the podcast coming later this month.   The second show on civil rights will not focus on the law but on the modern civil rights movement in the 1950s and 60s. The show will focus on a group that is often neglected though they had an enormous impact: college students. College students were often on the front lines of civil rights activities. These student-activists were marching, engaging in sit-ins, writing articles and making speeches, registering people to vote and so many other activities. They were often threatened, beaten and sometimes worse. But their impact is undeniable. Stay tuned for this important show. Students can make a difference.   But today’s show is a slightly different—only slightly—because it is about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. He fought hard for civil rights; we all know that. But his birthday is also in January—January 15th to be exact—so I felt that it was important to have a show that gives a “shout out” to him and remembers his birthday, which is celebrated as a federal holiday in the United States on the third Monday of January. Today’s Wiki history show about Dr. King won’t focus so much on what he did—though that will be discussed—but rather on how he can continue to inspire us, long after his early death in 1968. This show and every Wiki history podcast show is history at its finest. We’ll go beyond the names, dates and death counts of your high school history classes. (Remember, there is no “boring stuff” allowed here!) Instead, we’ll use history as a stepping stone to greater heights of wisdom and inspiration. We’re gonna get to it after just a bit of important information that you might find helpful.   First, if you enjoy this show, you can get more information at the Remembering history podcast page on Facebook. You will find pictures, short videos and a community of history lovers. There is also a place for comments, which I hope that you will leave for me because I really appreciate them and I do respond. Also, if you enjoy this show, please let others know about it. They might like it and find it inspirational too. Let’s change the way that we think of history—one friend at a time. By the way, you also find a short animated video of this podcast on the Remembering history Podcast Page (again on Facebook.)   Finally, I just want to remind you that 2017, the Wiki History podcast show is dedicated to the National Museum of African American History & Culture. Located in Washington, DC as part of the Smithsonian, the National Museum of African American History & Culture opened in 2016. This kind of museum was long overdue but it finally happened and it is a place that everyone should visit and explore. Museums are a great way to bring history to life and to keep it alive for future generations. Wiki History is honored to be a part of this important process. For every person that listens to this podcast show, rememberinghistory.com will donate $1 to the National Museum of African American History & Culture. I also donate personally and I hope that you will too.   That’s enough for now. Let’s get started with this great and groundbreaking Wiki history podcast show. Today’s show is called “Lessons from a King.”               “I have a dream” (speech excerpt) Play excerpt   August 28, 1963. I think that we all recognize this speech by Dr. Martin Luther King—one of the most famous speeches ever—given at the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. It’s also one of the most important glimpses into the heart and mind of Dr. King. The strength to dream, to envision a better world. The depth to let his spiritual side lead and encourage him to new heights. The audacity to challenge everyone to dream and work towards a world where equality, justice and peace are the norm.   And this speech is so inspirational that people want to wake up from their dreams to stand up and cheer. I certainly wanted to while I was listening to this recording.   We gonna hear more quotes from Dr. King throughout this podcast—he was one of the most quotable people on the planet—and his speeches inspired a generation. And continues to inspire people. There is so much that we can still learn from Martin Luther King and that is the focus of today’s podcast. We are gonna focus on the lessons learned from and inspirations acquired from Dr. King. His legacy will never die.   By the way, this is one of the joys of history. We can be inspired by people who are no longer here. We can continue to learn from their lives, the mistakes and their victories. Their stories never die. They become part of the never-ending human drama.   So, what lessons can we get from Dr. Martin Luther King? How can he inspire us?   So many ways but we will focus on just three.   Lesson #1: Be Maladjusted. Lesson #2: Work together. Lesson #3: Take action.   He spoke about these lessons. But, more importantly, he lived these lessons. And they inspired the world!           Let’s talk first about lesson #1. Be maladjusted.   That doesn’t sound right, does it? Why should we be maladjusted? Maladjusted means “failing to cope with one’s social environment or norms.” Did Dr. King really encourage us to be maladjusted? In a word, “yes!”   In a speech to the YMCA on June 4, 1957, Dr. King spoke to a group of students. He said,--and I gotta apologize that I’m not have a lot of audio recordings of Dr. King’s speeches. Instead, I will read an excerpt. Hope that’s okay. He said, “There are some things within our societal order to which I am proud to be maladjusted and to which I call upon you to be maladjusted. I never intend to adjust myself to segregation and discrimination. I never intend to adjust myself to mob rule. I never intend to adjust myself to the tragic effects of the methods of physical violence and to tragic militarism. I call upon you to be maladjusted to such things.” Later, speaking a Western Michigan University in 1963, he further said, “I never intend to become adjusted to religious bigotry. I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions that will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few. I am proud to be maladjusted.”   Wow! Here is Dr. King encouraging you to question societal norms that are inconsistent with your values and rights. Of course, things that Dr. King was fighting like segregation and discrimination are no longer legal but there are certainly other things happening and accepted today that you might not want to accept as normal, even if society does such as continued racial discrimination, LGTBQ discrimination, police violence, religious intolerance, economic inequality to name just a few.   Being maladjusted takes courage and conviction. It means going against an impassioned and fearful majority and deciding right and wrong on your own terms. This can be difficult but, as Dr. King said, “Our lives begin to end the day that we become silent about things that matter.” Being maladjusted means not being silent. It means speaking out. It means taking a stand. It means doing something. It can even be dangerous if others who disagree with you feel threatened and become violent. But it is definitely the “high road.” Creative maladjustment does not ask “is it safe?” “is it expedient?” “is it popular?” or “is it efficient?” Creative maladjustment simply asks “is it right?” Only your conscience can answer that question. And, as Dr. King said, “The time is always right to do the right thing.”       Being maladjusted can be expressed in so many ways that can improve your life. It can encourage you to go to college or start a business when others are telling to get a low-paying, dead-end job. It can encourage you to travel and meet new people when others are telling you that it’s better just to stay home. It can encourage you to follow your dreams to be a writer, musician or any other career ambition when others are telling to remain in your comfort zone or take something safe and steady. Being maladjusted can help you to live YOUR life rather than limiting yourself to what other’s say is possible for you.   What an inspirational and courageous concept! With all the difficulties that we face today—things can be quite confusing!—we can all follow the enduring legacy of Dr. King and remain true to our values and let our conscience to our guide.   "There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must take it because his conscience tells him it is right."    Let’s move on to the next lesson. Lesson #2 is to work together.   At the commencement speech at Oberlin College in 1965, Dr. King while discussing the importance of unity said, “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”   When many people talk about the civil rights movement, they focus on the work of Martin Luther King. There’s no doubt that he was at the center of the movement. But he was not alone. There were many organizations and people of all races, ethnicities, genders and backgrounds involved in the civil rights movement. And each person and organization played an important role.   Dr. King was not just a single person leading the movement. He was a founding member and the first president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, formed in 1957* following the successful 381-day Montgomery bus boycott. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (or SCLC) was a group of Baptist ministers who recruited members from churches to participate in civil rights demonstrations.       There was the NAACP—working nationally and locally to ensure economic, social and political equality, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (or SNCC)—you will hear more about them in a podcast on students in the civil rights movement later this month, there was the Nation of Islam whose most famous member was Malcolm X who focused on Black nationalism, CORE—the Congress of Racial Equality who were instrumental in the freedom rights to register Blacks to vote in the southern states, NAACP Legal Defense Fund led by William Hastie and Thurgood Marshall working hard to document disparate education between schools for Blacks and whites and to abolish the federal and state segregation laws. There were many other organizations involved and thousands of people working at the national and grassroots levels during the civil rights movement. I’m reluctant to mention any names because I can’t say them all and I don’t want to imply that any one was more important than another. But I can’t resist mentioning the “mother of the civil rights movement” Rosa Parks had worked to document and report incidents of white men engaging in systematic and unprosecuted sexual assaults against Black women. She had been involved in this risky work even before she refused to give up her seat on the Montgomery bus on December 1, 1955. There was Harry T. Moore* working in Florida to desegregate schools and demand equal pay for Black teachers. He and his wife were unfortunately killed in a bomb attack by the KKK. His story is amazing but often neglected. There was Viola Davis, a white housewife killed for transporting people during the March on Washington. (Remembering history has made an interesting but sad podcast about people killed fighting for civil rights. You can find it on the Facebook page.) And, of course, there were thousands of people who participated in the marches, sit-ins, freedom rides, boycotts and demonstrations. So many people. All working together.   Of course, there were conflicts and disagreements. Organizations had different approaches to achieving civil rights. Individuals had different motives and visions. But everyone ultimately wanted the same thing: freedom, justice and equality. I think that Dr. King: “We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” They had to learn to work together.   No, Dr. King did not act alone. The lesson here is that we must work together towards our common goal. Whether that goal is the cause of justice and equality, fighting for the environment, helping the poor or displaced persons, passing a law, stopping violence or raising a family, nobody walks alone. We must work together. It takes a village!   The lesson is clear: Look for ways to live and work together. Or else everyone loses. Everyone will be defeated. There really is strength in numbers.   Now, let’s turn to the third lesson (and arguably the most important and inspirational lesson of all). Lesson #3 is that you MUST take action.   Martin Luther King was a philosophical man, an educated man, a thinking man and a deeply spiritual man. But he was also a man of action. He was at the forefront of the modern civil rights movement from the beginning. Sometimes, we like to think of him as a man with dreams—and he certainly had dreams and visions of a better world. But he was absolutely committed to working—and I mean working hard—for change in the United States and around the world. And he always encouraged others to take action.   He once said, “Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.”   Is there any doubt that Dr. King was a man of action?   He organized and participated in numerous marches, sometimes in the front of the line. He also organized and participated in demonstrations and boycotts, gave speeches, wrote letters and sometimes just made an appearance to give people hope.   Dr. King was acutely aware that the work also had to occur in the political arena. He met with U.S. presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and Bobby Kennedy (who was attorney general under President Kennedy) constantly pressuring them for legislation on civil rights and voting rights, pressuring them to use federal troops to protect peaceful demonstrators and to enforce the desegregation orders in public schools.   He faced attack dogs, fire hoses and billy clubs in demonstrations. No, he wasn’t present at the Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery in which the police and local citizens brutalized the nonviolent demonstrators. Afterwards, Dr. King stated, “If I had any idea that the state troopers would use the kind of brutality they did, I would have felt compelled to give up my church duties altogether to lead the line.” He was arrested numerous times, risking getting beaten or killed in jail. Even when he was imprisoned, he wrote his famous Letter from a Birmingham Jail in which he stated firmly that Blacks can’t be patient and wait for change. Change had to happen NOW.   This podcast is just too short to list all of Martin Luther King’s work for civil rights. I just mention a few activities to reinforce the lesson that you must act to make things happen. Whether it is working for a cause, building a business, attending school, looking for a job or anything that is important to you, you must take action to make it happen. Sure, dream about it, envision it, plan it out. But also get to work to make it happen! And remember the words of Dr. King, “If you can’t fly then run. If you can’t run then walk. If you can walk then crawl. But whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”   So, you have the 3 lessons from Dr. Martin Luther King.   To recap:   Be maladjusted—don’t accept the norm if it conflicts with your values. Dare to be different. Work together—the more, the merrier and the more powerful. You don’t need to do it alone, Take action—work, work and keep working to achieve your goals.   That wraps up this Wiki history podcast. I hope that you enjoyed it, learned a little something and felt inspired. If you did like it, I would be grateful if you would tell others about this podcast and about the Wiki history show.   I realize that I mentioned a lot of quotations, names of people and organizations who were instrumental in the civil rights movement. You can get more information, see iconic pictures, find the quotations and even good a book list at the remembering history podcast page on Facebook. You will also find a link to a short animated video about “Lessons from a King”. It’s only 2 minutes and I think that you’ll find interesting and fun. And it’s great for kids of all ages.   The next show is about the Voting Rights Act. Dr. King was absolutely committed to the passage of this important law. You’ll learn about it and how effective it remains today. (Spoiler alert: The Supreme Court has not reigned supreme in protecting voting rights!)   And the final show for January is about the role of student-activists during the civil rights movement. They were bold, brave and didn’t back down. You definitely don’t wanna miss that show!   Come back soon to Remembering History where we ARE remembering history and we’re making it. Every day!   Bye for now!

SEGMENTS | EDUCATOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST HARRY T. MOORE | THE WORDS OF SOLDIERS IN FLORIDA AT CHRISTMAS TIME | FLORIDA’S FISHING INDUSTRY

SEGMENTS | 1. FORT CHRISTMAS HISTORIC PARK | 2. A SOLDIER’S CHRISTMAS – SECOND SEMINOLE WAR | 3. STUDENTS IN THE TRADITION OF HARRY T. MOORE

Before there was MLK, Malcolm X & Rosa Parks, there were hundreds of unsung Civil Rights Leaders llike Edward D.Davis, Harry T. Moore, Robert "Bob" Saunders, Ruby Hurley & Mrs. Irene K irkaldy who also lost their lives. Harry T. Moore and his Wife Harriet were The First Civil Rights members of The NAACP to lose their lives. The Moores were assassinated, i.e. Blown up in their home on Christmas, 1951 in Mims Florida. Join The Gist of Freedom and host Preston Washington discuss these tragic events which led to the victories Americans enjoy and take for granted today, with Chester Sims the nephew of Edward D. Davis, the founder of the Florida Voters League. Edward Davis Sr., was the NAACP two-term President of Florida, during this tragic era. Needless to say, Mr. Davis was also under constant threat. Dynamite was discovered in his home, only a few days after the Moore's assassination. Mr. Davis' nephew, Activists and Screenplay writer Chester Sims, is working to preserve his family's and legacy! So far Chester Sims has had great success, he assisted with the naming of a State Highway in his Uncle Edward D. Davis' Honor. Chester also lobbied for his Uncle's nomination into Florida's Civil Rights Hall of Fame. Langston Hughes and Sweet Honey In The Rock both wrote tributes to The Moores.   

Join The Gist of Freedom at The UNESCO ST Florida Conference - Live on Location Dr. Dunn, author  "The Beast In Florida" Presentations: Descendants of Rosewood Survivors and Victims. Topics:  The Rosewood Massacre- Self sustaining and Thriving African American town, Raided by Racist Murderers  Harry T. Moore and Harriet T. Moore, NAACP's First Civil Rights activist Couple Murdered. In 1951 after celebrating Christmas Day, civil rights activist Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriette retired to bed in their white frame house tucked inside a small orange grove in Mims, Florida. Ten minutes later, a bomb shattered their house, their lives and any notions that the south's post-war transition to racial equality would be a smooth one. Harry Moore died on the way to the hospital; his wife died nine days later.   As we celebrate and Congratulate America on their re-election of President Obama- we must never forget the historic significance of the struggle and to honor our legacy by making  a pledge to our God and Country to uphold it's tenets,  "I Am My brothers' keeper", From Attucks to Obama, the record shows our contributions to this nation's humanitarian social transformation is rooted in our abiltity  to humbly turn from our wicked ways in prayer, first and to then, courageously and successfully petition the government for relief.  We owe it to the brave freedom fighters to remain vigilant, in every election, from the PTA school board to the Presidency. Thereby doing our part to ensure the wrong side of history will never be forgotten or repeated, i.e, Gang & Gun Violence, Trayvon Matin, Jim Crow, Lynchings and Slavery.      

SEGMENTS | The Legacy of Harry T. Moore | The McLarty Treasure Museum | North Florida Blues