Douglas moore biography
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| Douglas Stuart Moore born: August 10th, 1893
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Composer, educator, author.
Moore studied with Horatio parkerar at Yale, from which he graduated in 1917. He served in the Navy as a Lieutenant, J.G., after which he went to Paris to devote his time to music. While there, he was a student of Vincent D'Indy, Charles Tournemire and Nadia Boulanger. Moore went to Cleveland in 1921 as Director of Music at the Cleveland Museum of Art, during which he studied with Ernest Bloch at the Cleveland Institute of Music, and performed in plays at the Cleveland Playhouse.
Four Museum Pieces, Moore's first serious work (about kvartet items in the Cleveland Art Museum's collection), in its orchestrated version, was first performed by the Cleveland Orchestra with Moore conducting. It won him a pris Traveling Fellowship, in 1926, allowing him to return to europe t
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Douglas E. Moore
American minister (1928–2019)
Douglas E. Moore (July 23, 1928 – August 22, 2019) was a Methodistminister who organized the 1957 Royal Ice Cream Sit-in in Durham, North Carolina. Moore entered the ministry at a young age. After finding himself dissatisfied with what he perceived as a lack of action among his divinity peers, he decided to take a more activist course. Shortly after becoming a pastor in Durham, Moore decided to challenge the city's power structure via the Royal Ice Cream Sit-in, a protest in which he and several others sat down in the white section of an ice cream parlor and asked to be served. The sit-in failed to challenge segregation in the short run, and Moore's actions provoked a myriad of negative reactions from many white and African-American leaders, who considered his efforts far too radical. Nevertheless, Moore continued to press forward with his agenda of activism.
Ultimately, however, Moore's plan of using the sit-in to challenge Dur
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From Douglas E. Moore
Author: Moore, Douglas E.
Date: October 3, 1956
Location: Durham, N.C.
Genre: Letter
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An acquaintance from King’s graduate school days at Boston University writes about his experiences as a proponent of Christian nonviolence and proposes “a regional group which utilizes the power of love and non-violence."1 On 7 December King's secretary, Maude Ballou, wrote that his letter had been misplaced and would be answered soon. That reply has not been found.
Dear King;
This is Doug Moore, graduate of Boston University’s School of Theology of 1953. In that you get a heavy volume of mail, I thought that I would use this type of introduction in order that you might know who it is that is writing.
I believe the last time I saw you we were talking together with Jean Martain and ironically enough, as I recall, the discussion centered around whether or not there were many Negro women that we knew who were pacifist.
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