About

WAYNE MOORE

Triumphant Warrior

Wayne Moore is a civil rights activist who is known internationally as a member of the famous Wilmington Ten, one of nine young African American men and one white woman who were wrongfully accused, tried, convicted and imprisoned for over four years for firebombing a grocery store and conspiracy to assault emergency personnel more than 40 years ago at the height of racial tensions in Wilmington, North Carolina.

After his release from prison, Moore attended Shaw University in North Carolina. He later relocated to Ann Arbor, Michigan where he joined Local 252 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers after being unsuccessful in finding employment in his home town. He worked as an inside wireman for 26 years until retirement in 2013.

In 2011, he organized the 40^th Commemoration of the Wilmington Ten in 2010. He called for, and received, proclamations from both the city and county government calling for the commemoration to be recognized as a “significant part of Black History Month”. The mayor presented each member of the Ten a written apology from the city, acknowledging that the Wilmington Ten had been wronged.

Presently, Moore is a member in good standing of St. Mary’s Lodge #4 of the Prince Hall Masons. He remains active nationally in the civil rights movement as founder of the Wilmington Ten Foundation for Social Justice. In his new book, “Triumphant Warrior: Memoir of a Soul Survivor of The Wilmington Ten Soul Survivor” Moore details his struggles and how he overcame them. Moore is committed to providing a deeply rich and sensitive rendering of his experience with racism and the justice system in the United States, and its continual criminalization of young African Americans. He firmly believes that the challenges of race and equality are just as much with us today as they were in the 1970s.

Moore says,

“My deepest desire is that these kinds of injustices continue to be exposed, so that what happened to the Wilmington Ten won't continue to destroy the lives of young black men. This Pardon of Innocence can't give me my life back. It does however officially bestow on me the title of Triumphant Warrior.”