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FREEDOMWAYS
Fourth Quarter 1966

Re the assassination of Harry T. Moore and his wife at Mims, Florida, Christmas, 1951.

Every loyal American citizen, especially every Negro citizen, and more especially every Negro soldier, should stop right here and now and take time out to consider the blasting to death of Harry T. Moore and his wife Harriet, not on Heartbreak Ridge on the distant battlefield of Korea, but on Heartbreak Ridge here in Mims, Florida, U.S.A., on Christmas night. Christmas night!
This savage barbarism is naked and exposed for all to see as the work of a few vicious but powerful UnAmerican citizens in the State of Florida, which State, along with some of her sister Southern States, fights for the right of these UnAmericans to be free to overthrow the Federal Constitution of these United States by force and violence, assassination and terror.
While these UnAmericans rave and rant and pant about the glory of Freedom and Democracy, and the need for defending them by fighting Communism in Europe and Asia and particularly in Korea, they are very busy fighting American Constitutional Democracy here in the United States; they fight Civil Rights legislation; and they fight -- politically, economically, socially and physically, often with force and violence to the death -- those loyal American citizen who refuse to agree with or obey them.
At this particular time when the military and diplomatic representatives of our country are loudly insisting upon Freedom and Democracy (current American style) for the peoples of Europe and Asia; while these representatives abroad are bitterly fighting and calling all those who disagree with them aggressors, barbarians, bandits, slaves, insincere; at this particular time certain UnAmerican citizens in Florida proceed to graphically illustrate this Freedom and Democracy (current American style) by blasting to death a respected, middle-aged, American Negro couple, Harry and Harriet Moore, from their bed in their neat little home in Mims on Christmas. Christmas night!
The Harry T. Moores were respectable citizens in the accepted American tradition. They were born, lived and worked in the South -- worked to help improve the condition of themselves and their fellow-citizens, their state and their country. They worked always in the lawful way, gradually, through the respectable national organization, the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People.

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