Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

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Guide to the Audley Moore: FOIA File (United States Federal Bureau of Investigation), 1940s-1960s, undated

1940s-1960s, undated

Audley (Queen Mother) Moore was an African American black nationalist and communist. In the 1920s she was active in Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association in New York City. In 1936 she joined the Communist Party, becoming secretary of its Harlem section in 1941, and in 1942, secretary of the New York State Party organization. She left the Party in 1950, and subsequently founded the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, In 1959 tutored the young Malcolm X, in 1963 she established a Reparations Committee to advocate compensatory payment to descendants of slaves, and in 1968 participated in the declaration of the Republic of New Africa and initiated its statement of independence. The collection contains FBI files, and documents Audley Moore's political activity and views from the 1940s through the 1960s.

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