A motorist and deputy with the Forsyth County Sheriff s Office in pursuit each reached speeds of 70 mph in a 35 mph zone during a 2½ mile chase on Friday
In 1946, their fight to better the lives of Black Americans in the Jim Crow South cost them their jobs. Six years later, it cost them their lives.
Today, Harry and Harriette Moore a pair of Mims educators sometimes called the first martyrs of the modern civil rights movement are still broadly unknown, even in the county they called home.
Nearly 70 years after their deaths, that may finally change.
The Brevard Federation of Teachers, with help from the Harry T. and Harriette V. Moore Cultural Complex, are working with Brevard Public Schools to incorporate teaching of the Moores into the school curriculum, ensuring their place among other civil rights heroes in the minds of Brevard students.