Book overview
FINALIST: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY - A LIBRARY JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF 2025
From an award-winning historian of Black radical politics comes the definitive biography of Audley Moore--mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations
"A beautiful, brilliant, and important book. It's as if an essential puzzle piece in Black history had been missing, and Ashley Farmer has filled it in, perfectly, with meticulous research and stirring prose. Unforgettable."--Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism, the founder of the modern reparations movement, and, from her Philadelphia and Harlem homes, a mentor to some of America's most influential Black activists.
And yet, she is far less remembered than many of her peers and prot
From an award-winning historian of Black radical politics comes the definitive biography of Audley Moore--mother of modern Black Nationalism and trailblazer in the fight for reparations
"A beautiful, brilliant, and important book. It's as if an essential puzzle piece in Black history had been missing, and Ashley Farmer has filled it in, perfectly, with meticulous research and stirring prose. Unforgettable."--Jonathan Eig, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of King: A Life
In the world of Black radical politics, the name Audley Moore commands unquestioned respect. Across the nine decades of her life, Queen Mother Moore distinguished herself as a leading progenitor of Black Nationalism, the founder of the modern reparations movement, and, from her Philadelphia and Harlem homes, a mentor to some of America's most influential Black activists.
And yet, she is far less remembered than many of her peers and prot
