Erin ’s Reviews > Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore > Status Update

Moore was aroused in righteous indignation over the dozens of Black men who were excuted as a result of the whims of white women.

The 1972 National Black Political Agenda called for statehood for the District of Columbia, tuition free college for all Black Americans, federal funds to be funneled to agricultural laborers in the South, commitment to counteracting climate change, an end to the Vietnam War, and support for Palestinian self determination and called out Israel's apartheid of Palestine.

The American government needed to atone monetarily for its racist past before Black people could invest in the country's future.

"The only way we gonna stop them white men from whuppin us is to take over."

Audley advocated for aid to Black women who who had turned to sex work out of desperation during the Depression. Declaring that it was out of a need to survive not some inherent lewdness that Black women had.

Publicizing Black Americans plight to international leaders made it harder for the United States to claim the moral high ground.

The U.S. Census and Migration Division classified Puerto Ricans as white.

Rosa Parks refused to shun Communists during the height of the Red Scare and she continued to partner with groups the government deemed "subversive" as she gained notoriety.

"The persecution of any individual or minority for political beliefs represented a danger for all minority groups and especially for the Negro people."

Around 1933 Audley joined the International Labor Defense (ILD) a prisoners' defense organization founded in 1925 that had an open membership policy and embraced Marxist tenets.