Queen Mother Moore - African Liberation Leader

Audley Moore worked as a hairdresser in New Orleans and first heard Marcus Garvey speak there in 1920. She joined the Communist Party around 1933 and left in 1950, judging that it no longer served Black people. In the 1960s she founded the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women in Louisiana, which argued that welfare was owed as reparations and ran mutual aid for women cut off by unfit-mother rules. She helped found the Republic of New Afrika and died in a Brooklyn nursing home in 1997.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Shadows-on-the-Teche — 0.8 mi
  A National Trust site in New Iberia built 1831 to 1834 for sugar planters David and Mary Weeks, now interpreted around the 1,112 people the Weeks family enslaved, among them Charity Polk, Amos, Patty, Isaac and Louisa.
• African American Museum, St. Martinville — 7.9 mi
  A museum in the St. Martinville Cultural Heritage Center on the arrival of Africans in Southwest Louisiana, slavery, the free people of color and Reconstruction, with the fourteen-panel exhibit The Shackles of Memory.
• St. Martin de Tours Catholic Church — 7.9 mi
  The Mother Church of the Acadians, founded in 1765 on St. Martin Square in St. Martinville, with a late 1870s Lourdes grotto and, a block away, the Evangeline Oak on Bayou Teche.
• Jungle Gardens and Avery Island — 8.5 mi
  A 170-acre garden and wildfowl refuge on a Gulf Coast salt dome, founded by Edward Avery McIlhenny, on an island that was a Marsh sugar plantation worked by enslaved people before Tabasco and the 1862 salt works.

More markers nearby

• The Episcopal Church Of The Epiphany — 0.4 mi
• A Walk of Faith — 0.4 mi
• Howe Institute — 0.5 mi
• Ambassador Wilbert John Le Melle — 0.5 mi