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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 protégés—Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X, and Muhammad Ahmad, to name just a few—and the ephemera of her life are either lost or plundered. In Queen Mother, celebrated writer and historian Ashley D. Farmer restores Moore’s faded portrait, delivering the first ever definitive account of her life and enduring legacy.
Author Bio:
Ashley D. Farmer is a scholar of Black women's history, intellectual history, and radical politics. She served as a postdoctoral fellow at the Clayman Institute, and she is currently an associate professor in the Departments of History and African and African Diaspora Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Remaking Black Power: How Black Women Transformed an Era and Queen Mother: Black Nationalism, Reparations, and the Untold Story of Audley Moore. Farmer's scholarship has appeared in numerous venues, including The Black Scholar and The Journal of African American History. Her research has also been featured in several popular outlets, such as Harper's Bazaar, NPR, and Teen Vogue. Her next book project is Watched: The Black Women Tracked by the FBI, a history of the rise and fall of COINTELPRO through the eyes of the Black women J. Edgar Hoover hunted.