Emily Moore
Emily Moore was awarded the 2006 Hy Zausner "Lifetime Achievement" Award.
Ms. Moore is a living history book. She was the first, of eleven students at Morgan State University, to be arrested for refusing to get up from a segregated lunch counter. Dr. Martin Luther King made a trip to the College to encourage her and her colleagues. She served in Nigeria as a Peace Corp volunteer, organized The Friends of SNCC in Paris, and served with Queen Mother Moore for three years in a delegation touring the United States and Tanzania.
In 1975, Ms. Moore founded the Alliance Junior Tennis Development Program, to introduce tennis to children who wouldn't otherwise be exposed. She effectively uses tennis to encourage structure and discipline within children. Most of these children have been afforded opportunities to attend college on tennis scholarships. Her efforts have been lauded by the late Aruthur Ashe and Althea Gibson.
She received her Master of Science Degree from Hofstra University. She currently teaches at the Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School.
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