But the state had white groups who resisted change , to the point of attacking and killing blacks . In December 1951 whites bombed the house of activists Harry Moore and his wife Harriette , who both died of injuries from the blast . Although their murders were not solved then , a state investigation in 2006 reported they had been killed by an independent unit of the Ku Klux Klan . Numerous bombings were directed against African Americans in 1951 – 1952 in Florida
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Murder of Harry and Harriette Moore
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