In the spring of 1963, a 35-year-old white postal worker named William Lewis Moore embarked on a solitary journey for civil rights, a mission that would tragically be his last. A former Marine and a member of the Congress of Racial Equality Moore was a passionate advocate against racial segregation. He began a one-man march from Chattanooga, Tennessee, with the ultimate destination of Jackson, Mississippi. There, he intended to personally deliver a letter to Governor Ross Barnett, urging him to
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