POINT PLEASANT — TAHIRA TAHIRA, acclaimed storyteller, came to the Point Pleasant Borough Library on Wednesday to tell and sing powerful stories about black people and families whom history has either forgotten or tried to erase.
This program is sponsored by the Ocean County Library Cultural Awareness Team, who brought Ms. TAHIRA to the library as she beautifully sang and powerfully told stories about the civil rights movement, Black women in history, the Underground Railroad and many more.
Ms. TAHIRA’s full, legal name is spelled twice in all caps.
Roughly a dozen residents came out to see her perform, as she told stories about Harry T. and Harriette Moore, a Florida couple active in the civil rights movement in the 1950s.
She told the story of how they fought for equal pay among black and white teachers, working with Thurgood Marshall to try to close this gap. Ultimately, they were unsuccessful, and subsequently fired from their jobs within the school district, which only sparked them to keep fighting more and more in the civil rights movement.
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