January 12, 1952
The case received media coverage and prompted protests across the country. Langston Hughes wrote a poem about the murders months later titled, “The Ballad of Harry Moore.”
For more information on the Moore case, see PBS’s Freedom Never Dies: The Legacy of Harry T. Moore, and this Washington Post 2011 profile of the the couple’s youngest daughter, “At Christmas, Evangeline Moore thinks of her martyred parents and demands justice.”