Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Acel Moore
Acel Moore
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| Other authors / contributors: | Moore, Acel, 1940-2016, interviewee.
Brock, Paul, 1932- interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Paul Brock, interviewer.
Recorded Atlanta, Georgia 2005 August 5.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | 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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