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A motorist and deputy with the Forsyth County Sheriffs Office in pursuit each reached speeds of 70 mph in a 35 mph zone during a 2½ mile chase on Friday

In 1946, their fight to better the lives of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South cost them their jobs. Six years later, it cost them their lives. Today, Harry and Harriette Moore — a pair of Mims educators sometimes called the "first martyrs" of the modern civil rights movement — are still broadly unknown, even in the county they called home. Nearly 70 years after their deaths, that may finally change. The Brevard Federation of Teachers, with help from the Harry T. and Harriette V. Mo...