Florida can try to whitewash it, but the racism that killed Harry T. Moore isn’t mere history |...

The Christmas-night killing of civil-rights activist Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriette, 70 years ago was dubbed the “the bomb heard around the world.” The blast of explosives placed under their home in Mims, a quiet community just north of what’s today the Kennedy Space Center, was so loud there are stories of it being heard five miles away.

Their murder, which to this day hasn’t been solved, marked the first assassination of a U.S. civil-rights leader. But the Moores have not become household names usually associated with the movement; their restored home, now a cultural center, isn’t treated as a must-see Florida attraction.