Queen Mother Moore was born as Audley to Ella and St. Cry Mooreon July 27, 1898 in New Iberia, Louisiana. Her grandmother, Nora Henry,was born into slavery, the daughter of an Afrikan woman who was rapedby her enslaver who was a doctor. Her grandfather was lynched beforehis wife's eyes leaving Nora Henry with five orphaned children of whom EllaJohnson — mother of Queen Mother Moore — was the youngest. Ella died in1904. Queen Mother Moore completed only the third grade of her formal education. Her struggles began at the tender age of twelve fighting the advances of white men in the South Queen Mother has been struggling for seventy-seven years for the human and civil rights of all African people throughout the world which makes her our warrior queen and a living legend. At the grand old age of ninety-eight, she had continued to make her home in Harlem.
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