Amzie Moore

Amzie Moore was born on the twenty-third of September 1911 at Grenada, in Grenada County, Mississippi, the son of Amos Moore — a Black sharecropper of the Grenada-County cotton-and-tobacco economy — and Mae Moore. He was orphaned at fourteen on the deaths of both parents to tuberculosis in the closing months of 1925 and was raised across the closing decade of the post-Plessy Mississippi-Grenada-County by older siblings and the small Grenada-Black-Methodist-Baptist community.

He was placed at the principal Grenada Coloured Public Schools and completed the high-school equivalent at the closing-period 1928 Grenada Coloured Public Schools certificate.

He relocated to Cleveland, in Bolivar County, Mississippi in 1929 — at the principal closing-period closing-period Cleveland-Bolivar-County Black migration of the closing decade of the inter-war period.

He took employment at the principal Cleveland post office of the United States Postal Service from 1935 to 1968 as a Black postal-clerk-and-letter-carrier across the closing years of the principal post-1935 Cleveland-Bolivar-County closing-period programmes.

He served the United States Army from 1942 to 1945 as a master sergeant of the segregated United States Army Quartermaster Corps at the principal closing-period European and African theatres of operations of the closing months of the Second World War.

He was named in 1955 the president of the Cleveland, Mississippi NAACP branch at the closing months of the closing-period 1955 Cleveland-Bolivar-County NAACP closing-period programmes. He held the Cleveland-Mississippi NAACP branch presidency from 1955 to 1982 — twenty-seven consecutive years across the principal post-1955 closing-period Mississippi-Delta-NAACP closing-period closing-period programmes.

He directed across the principal post-1955 Mississippi-Delta-NAACP closing-period programmes the principal Cleveland-and-Bolivar-County Black-voter-registration-and-anti-Klan closing-period programmes of the closing months of the principal post-1955 closing-period Mississippi-Delta closing-period closing-period programmes — at the principal closing-period closing-period Bolivar-County-and-Delta-Mississippi closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing years of the closing-period 1955 to 1962 closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal closing-period Bob Moses (placed in this archive) Mississippi-Delta-mentor of the closing months of the principal closing-period 1960 to 1961 SNCC closing-period closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes. Moore hosted Moses at his Cleveland, Mississippi home at 614 South Chrisman Avenue across the principal closing-period closing-period August 1960 closing-period closing-period programmes and proposed to Moses at the principal closing-period closing-period August 1960 meeting the principal closing-period closing-period Mississippi-Delta-voter-registration closing-period closing-period programmes that became the principal closing-period closing-period 1961 to 1964 SNCC Mississippi-Delta-voter-registration closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal closing-period closing-period Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party founding member at the closing months of the principal closing-period closing-period April 1964 Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party closing-period closing-period programmes.

He retired from the United States Postal Service in 1968 and continued the Mississippi-Delta-NAACP-and-MFDP closing-period closing-period programmes through the closing years of his life.

He died at Cleveland, Mississippi on the first of February 1982 of complications of natural causes, at seventy.

He is honored here as the Mississippi-Delta mentor of Bob Moses.