“No nation can rise higher than its women.”
As we continue our struggle to restore our people to our traditional greatness, we absolutely must always have dedicated, committed, and non-apologetic examples to learn and grow from, Queen Mother Audrey Moore is one of those shining examples. When she becomes a household name in Black communities across this nation, I will know that we are indeed–moving in the right direction.
Reparations are the call from the descendants of slaves (Black people) to be compensated by the U.S. government for the centuries of damages through the horrific acts of unpaid slave labor, mass murder, torture, physical injuries, psychological trauma, devastation, and genocide inflicted upon our ancestors. The history of our demand and the broken promises of reparations by the U.S. government is deeply rooted in the annals of our struggle for freedom and independence.
There was a powerful woman that kept the call for reparations at the forefront of our liberation struggle. That woman’s name was Queen Mother Moore!
Queen Mother Moore spent 64 years of her life fighting for the reparations movement. Sister Moore was born Audley Moore in the state of Louisiana in 1898. She courageously fought for our freedom and rights as a people, right up until the devastating time that she made her transition with the ancestors on May 2, 1997. While growing up in the south, Queen Moore experienced the savagery of overt cruelty and racism on a daily basis. Her grandfather was lynched by a racist white mob in New Orleans. As a young woman, she joined the UNIA-ACL and studied the teachings and philosophy of Marcus Garvey. By the time she moved to Harlem, New York in the 1920s, she was a devoted Pan-African nationalist, equipped with organizing skills, knowledge for effective political activities, and mobilization strategies.
During this most challenging time period, she would fight for our education, housing, and poverty and put a massive amount of time, soul, and spirit into the reparations movement. She would go on to inform us that “ever since 1950, I’ve been on the trail fighting for reparations
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