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Born July 27, 1898, in New Iberia, LA
Died May 2, 1997, in Brooklyn, NY
Queen Mother Moore dedicated her life to working on behalf of people of African heritage. She organized on many fronts, from the great influenza epidemic of 1918 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, where she worked as a volunteer nurse, to the United Nations, where she presented petitions in the late 1950s charging genocide and demanding reparations to descendants of former slaves. The founder and president of the Universal Association of the Ethiopian Women, she was a life member of both the Universal Negro Improvement Association and the National Council of Negro Women.