The HistoryMakers video oral history with Acel Moore.

Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]

1 online resource (3 video files (1 hr., 27 min., 40 sec.)) : sound, color.

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Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

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Journalism professor and newspaper columnist Acel Moore was born on October 5, 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Moore attended Charles Morris Price School of Advertising and Journalism. He worked at the Philadelphia Inquirer as a copy boy in 1962. In 1964, he became an editorial clerk, also working as a staff writer. In 1970, Moore won the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Scale of Justice Award for his series on the juvenile court system. In 1974, Moore and Reggie Bryant hosted a television show called Black Perspectives on the News. In 1977, Moore won the Pulitzer Prize for local investigative reporting for his series on abuse of inmates at Farview State Hospital. In the 1980s, Moore served on the faculty of University of California at Berkeley for the summer program for minority journalists. Moore lectured and wrote and trained staff for the Philadelphia Inquirer. Moore passed away on February 12, 2016 at age 75.

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February 04, 2021

Videographer, Matthew Hickey.

Paul Brock, interviewer.