@Regrann from @august_third_napla - Furaha Kuzaliwa 119 Birth Anniversary Queen Mother Moore! Queen Mother Moore was born Audley Moore in New Iberia, Louisiana. Her early experiences with racial violence in the South had a profound effect on her consciousness at a young age. __ In New Orleans where she heard Marcus Garvey speak. This experience of collective unity deeply affected Queen Mother and resulted in her joining the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA). _ Queen Mother relocated with her husband and her two sisters to Harlem in the early 1920s. There she organized domestic workers in the Bronx labor market and helped Black tenants in their struggles against white landlords. She was arrested repeatedly for her activities, but she would not stop in her activism. In 1931, she participated in the Communist party's march in Harlem to free the Scottsboro boys. Inspired by the party's stance on anti-racism, Queen Mother joined the International Labor Defense and the Communist Party. During the 1930s, she organized around housing issues, the Italian-Ethiopian war, racial prejudice in film, and a host of other issues confronting poor and oppressed Black communities. _ She was a Communist Party candidate for the New York State Assembly in 1938 and for alderman in 1940. She was also a member of the National Association of Colored Women and the National Council of Negro Women. By 1950, Queen Mother had resigned from the Communist Party and helped found the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women, which worked on welfare rights, prisoners' rights, and anti-lynching. In 1963, she formed the Reparations Committee of Descendants of U.S. Slaves to demand reparations for Blacks from the government. She drummed up support around the country to get over a million signatures to petition the government and was successful in presenting the signatures to President Kennedy in December of that year, the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. In the late 1960s, Queen Mother was one of the first signers of the Republic of New Africa's Independence Charter, which called for the creation of five independently governed states. #QueenMotherMoore (at Vista Lago at the Hammocks)
