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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We often trace the early history of the civil rights movement in the United States to the year 1954,

when the Supreme Court ruled Brown v. the Board of Education, calling the segregation of public schools by race unconstitutional.

Indeed, this historic ruling did become the catalyst for such watershed moments in civil

rights history, like the outrage at 14-year-old Emmett Till's murder in 1955, the Montgomery

bus boycott that spanned 1955 and 1956, and the lunch counters sit-in protests from 1958 to 1960.

But before any of these group actions led to the dismantling of racial segregation and new laws

against discrimination, it was brave individuals who, one by one, raised their flags to fight

against these injustices.

These solo individuals who founded small grassroots organizations put themselves in great danger and often paid with their livelihoods

and sometimes their lives.

Harry Tyson Moore and his wife Harriet lived a quiet life

but raised their voices for the rights of

African Americans beginning in the 1930s. They are two unsung heroes of the civil rights

movement who became targets of a deadly attack on Christmas Day, 1951. In this last episode for

2024, I'll share with you this story of extraordinary courage,

an unwavering fight for justice, and a shocking and cowardly act that turned a brave couple

into martyrs for the civil rights of all Americans.

This is the story of Harry and Harriet Moore and the KKK Christmas Day bombing. This episode of Once Upon a Crime is sponsored by BetterHelp.

I am so stoked because I wrapped up all my deadline work for the podcast. That means up until

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