2-833-018 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Personalized pigskin wallet embossed with Harry Tyson Moore's name. Moore was an African-American educator, a pioneer leader of the civil rights movement, founder of the first branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Brevard County, Florida, and president of the state chapter of the NAACP. He and his wife were fatally injured by a bomb beneath their house. Moore died on the way to the hospital which was about 30 miles away but was the closest to serve African Americans - hospitals were segregated, with black people not permitted to be treated in the better-equippped 'white' hospitals. This is a brown leather fold over wallet. Inside, it has two pockets in front and two interior pockets. There is also a bill fold running the length of the wallet. The bill fold and the interior pockets are lined with darker leather. One the right side, embossed in gold letters, is the name "HARRY T MOORE." Below in smaller letters, also gold, is embossed "Genuine Pigskin." The wallet fold is extremely worn and the surface of the leather is scarred and pitted.