![]() He arrived at about the same time that Rev. On his second march he walked to the White House. ![]() On his first march he walked to Annapolis, Maryland, the state capital. ![]() In early 1960s, Moore undertook three civil rights protests in which he marched to a capital to hand-deliver letters he had written denouncing racial segregation. Moore joined the Congress on Racial Equality (CORE). He gradually got involved in civil rights activism for African Americans. After being released, he became an activist on behalf of the mentally ill. He was institutionalized for a year and a half with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. In the early 1950s, when Moore was a graduate student at Johns Hopkins University, he had a mental breakdown. ![]() ![]() For a time before his death he lived in Baltimore, Maryland. Moore was born in Binghampton NY and raised in New York and Mississippi. He was assassinated in Keener, Alabama, during a protest march from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Jackson, Mississippi, where he intended to deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett, supporting civil rights. William Lewis Moore (Ap– April 23, 1963) was a postal worker and Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) member who staged lone protests against racial segregation. ![]()
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