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Amzie Moore
American businessman
Amzie Moore (September 23, 1911 – February 1, 1982) was an African-Americancivil rights leader and entrepreneur in the Mississippi Delta.
He helped lead voter registration efforts. His former home in Cleveland, Mississippi, is a Mississippi Landmark. A historical marker commemorates its history.[1] It is now a museum and interpretive center.
Amzie moore biography of albert einstein
Early life
Amzie Moore was extremely influential in advocating and registering African Americans in Mississippi to exercise their right to vote as American citizens. Born September 23, 1911, on Wilkin Plantation in Grenada County, Mississippi, at the age of fourteen was left to fend for himself after his parents split, and his father abandoned him.
The furthest he went in his education was tenth grade at Stone Street High School in Greenwood, Mississippi[2]
In 1935 he moved to Bolivar County and got a job as a custodian at the local Post Office; in the midst of the Great Depression