Harry T. Moore & Harriette Moore

Harry T. Moore, a founder of the Brevard County NAACP and executive secretary of the Florida NAACP, and his wife Harriette Moore, a teacher and fellow organizer, were killed when a bomb exploded under their bedroom floor on their 25th wedding anniversary, Christmas night 1951. Harry died that night; Harriette died of her injuries nine days later. A 2006 Florida Attorney General investigation concluded the bombing was carried out by four Ku Klux Klan members — Earl J. Brooklyn, Tillman H. Belvin, Joseph N. Cox, and Edward L. Spivey — all of whom had died before the finding was announced. The FBI reviewed the case again in 2008 under the Emmett Till Unsolved Civil Rights Crime Act; the U.S. Department of Justice formally closed the file in 2011, since the statute of limitations had expired and all four men were dead.

Mims, FL · Brevard County

• 1951: Case opens — victim reported missing or found.
• Documented milestones (renewed investigation, media coverage, family advocacy) to be added as sourced.
• Present: case remains unresolved. No named suspect has been convicted.

• Both victims' identities and the date and location of the bombing.
• The 2006 state investigation's named findings, per the Florida Attorney General's executive summary.
• The DOJ's 2011 case closure, per its public Notice to Close File.

• No one was ever formally charged or convicted for the bombing.
• Some case details remain disputed among historians and investigators.

• U.S. Department of Justice — Civil Rights Division case page
• PBS FRONTLINE, “Un(re)solved” — case summary
• State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory — photograph record PR05145
• Project Cold Case
• Murder Accountability Project
• NamUs