Audley “Queen Mother” Moore, prominent Harlem civil rights activist, was born on July 27 1898, in New Iberia, Louisiana to Ella and St. Cry Moore.  Moore’s parents passed away before she completed primary school.  Following their deaths, she dropped out of school to earn a living as a hairdresser to support her two younger sisters.   She educated herself by reading the writings of Frederick Douglass and listening to the speeches of Marcus Garvey. Moved by the Black Nationalist message in a speech Marcus Garvey gave in New Orleans, Moore migrated to Harlem, New York in 1922 during the early years of the Harlem Renaissance. While in Harlem, she became a member and then a leader within Garvey’s Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA).  A proud shareholder in the Black Star Line, she helped organize UNIA conventions in New York.  Moore married Frank Warner in 1922.  They had one son, Thomas. After the demise of the UNIA, Moore founded several organizations.  With her base in Harlem, Moore founded and served as president of the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women  in 1950.   In 1963, she founded the Committee for Reparations for Descendants of U.S. Slaves, and The Republic of New Africa, which demanded … Continue reading Audley Moore (1898-1997)