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They died in the cause of Civil Rights

[image - black & white photograph of group of white men at a lynching; hanging bodies of two black men are at left]]
[[caption]] Brutal lynchings, like the public triple slaying of three black men (above) during the early '20s in [[text cut off]] Klux Klan-infested Marion, Ind., were common occurrences in both the North and South. Aimed at keeping blacks in a perpetual state of terror, lynchings were stepped [[text cut off]] whenever and wherever blacks intensified their struggle for equality. [[/caption]] 

[image - black & white photograph of Rev Martin Luther King Jr. giving speech to crowd]]

[image - black & white photograph of a man]]

[[images - two black & white photographs, one of Harry T. Moore and one of Harriet Moore, his wife.]]
[[/caption]] Harry T. Moore, NAACP state secretary and fearless civil rights activist, and his wife, Harriet, were killed in the 1951 Christmas night bombing of their Mims, Fla., home. No arrests were ever made in the killings. Three years prior to his death, Moore made national news by protesting Florida Gov. Millard F. Caldwell's failure "to take effective action" in the 1946 lynching of another black man. Jesse James Payne.[[/caption]]

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