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School board may acknowledge unjust firing of two Brevard civil rights martyrs Bailey Gallion, Florida Today Replay Video UP NEXT Decades after their murders, two Black Mims educators and civil rights activists are on the cusp of having a historic injustice undone Tuesday when the school board considers restoring their status as Brevard County teachers.  A resolution up for discussion at Tuesday’s Brevard County School Board meeting would name Harry Moore and his wife Harriette teachers emeritus and declare that they were unjustly fired in 1946. It also provides for a...

Brevard students could get more in-depth lessons about 2 civil rights activists Students could start learning about civil rights leaders At the Harry and Harriette Moore Cultural Center and Museum, the president says he’d like to see more students going to the museum for field trips and learning all about two local civil rights activists. BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. - At the Harry and Harriette Moore Cultural Center and Museum, the president says he’d like to see more students going to the museum for field trips and learning all about two local civil rights activists. "Do a tour, go through the...

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. Moore Cultural Complex, are working with Brevard Public Schools to incorporate teaching of the Moores...