Harry T. Moore and his wife , Harriette Moore , also an educator , were the victims of a bombing of their home in Mims , Florida on Christmas night 1951 . He died in an ambulance on the way to a black hospital in Sanford , Florida , county seat of Seminole County about 30 miles to the northwest . His wife died nine days later of her wounds on January 3 , 1952 , at the same hospital . This followed their both having been fired from teaching because of their activism , a form of economic retaliation used by the establishment
victims of a bombing
Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore
Harry T. Moore