Audley Moore, a civil rights leader and Black nationalist, adopted the name Queen Mother in the 1960s as a symbol of both her matriarchal presence in Black organizing spaces as well as the connection to Africa that was key to her politics. But today she''s far less well-known than her contemporaries. https://www.texasobserver.org/queen-mother-reparations-movement-gets-her-due/
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