Queen Mother Moore

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Queen Mother Moore
American Civil Rights Movement

Queen Mother Moore (born Audley Moore; July 27, 1898 – May 2, 1997)

American Civil Rights Movement and a founder of the Republic of New Afrika. Dr. Delois Blakely
was her assistant for 20 years. Blakely was later enstooled in Ghana as a Nana (Queen Mother).

Biography

She was born Audley Moore in New Iberia, Louisiana, to Ella and St. Cyr Moore on July 27, 1898. Both her parents died before she completed the fourth grade, her mother Ella Johnson dying in 1904 when Audley was six. Her grandmother, Nora Henry, had been enslaved at birth, the daughter of an African woman who was raped by her enslaver, who was a doctor. Audley Moore's grandfather was lynched, leaving her grandmother with five children with Moore's mother as the youngest. Moore became a hairdresser at the age of 15.

Moore later had an adopted son, Thomas O. Warner.[1]

After viewing a speech by

UNIA,[1] founded in 1914 by Marcus Garvey. She participated in Garvey's first international convention in New York City and was a stock owner in the Black Star Line. Along with becoming a leading figure in the Civil Rights Movement, Moore worked for a variety of causes for over 60 years. Her last public appearance was at the Million Man March alongside Jesse Jackson
during October 1995.

Moore was the founder and president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women as well as the founder of the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of U.S. Slaves. She was a founding member of the Republic of New Afrika to fight for self-determination, land, and reparations.

In 1964, Moore founded the Eloise Moore College of African Studies, Mt. Addis Ababa in Parksville, New York. The college was destroyed by fire in the late 1970s.[2]

For most of the 1950s and 1960s, Moore was the best-known advocate of

African-American reparations. Operating out of Harlem and her organization, the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, Moore actively promoted reparations from 1950 until her death.[3]

Although raised Catholic, Moore disaffiliated during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, during which Moore felt Pope Pius XII took improper actions in supporting the Italian army.[4][5] She later became bishop of the Apostolic Orthodox Church of Judea. She was also a founding member of the Commission to Eliminate Racism, Council of Churches of Greater New York. In organizing this commission, she staged a 24-hour sit-in for three weeks.

She was also a co-founder of the African American Cultural Foundation, Inc., which led the fight against usage of the slave term "Negro".[6]

In 1957, Moore presented a petition to the United Nations and a second in 1959, arguing for self-determination, against genocide, for land and reparations, making her an international advocate. Interviewed by E. Menelik Pinto, Moore explained the petition, in which she asked for 200 billion dollars to monetarily compensate for 400 years of slavery. The petition also called for compensations to be given to African Americans who wish to return to Africa and those who wish to remain in America. Queen Mother Moore was the first signer of the New African agreement

Taking the first of many trips to Africa in 1972, she was given the

Ashanti people in Ghana
, an honorific that became her informal name in the United States.

In 1990, Blakely took her to meet

Victoria Theater (New York City)
5 at 125th Street, Harlem.

The first African-American Chairman of the DNC (Democratic National Committee) and U.S. Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown (U.S. politician), U.S. Congressman Charles Rangel, NYC Mayor David Dinkins and U.S. Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson honored, supported, acknowledged, respected and insured the well-being of Moore as a Royal Elder in the Harlem community.

Sonia Sanchez, voice of the liberation struggle of a people, was a God-daughter adored by Moore.

Queen Mother Moore died in a

Brooklyn nursing home from natural causes at the age of 98.[1]

References

  1. ^
    ISSN 0362-4331
    . Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  2. ^ Alston, Nzingha (May 10, 1997). "Queen Mother Moore was an untiring crusader for justice". New York Amsterdam News. 88 (19): 8. 2/5p – via Academic Search Complete.
  3. ^ Charles Henry, "The Politics of Racial Reparations", Journal of Black Studies, 142.
  4. ^ "Queen Mother Audley Moore interview pt. 1: The early days – Liberation School". December 11, 2018. Retrieved January 11, 2022.
  5. ISBN 978-3-11-097391-4
    .
  6. ^ "Auberge du Peche-Lune". www.peche-lune.com. Archived from the original on May 18, 2007. Retrieved June 4, 2020.

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