Geraldine Moore
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Geraldine Hamilton Cook Moore was a writer, and the first African-American female columnist for The Birmingham News.
Moore self-published a pamphlet in 1948 entitled "Breaking the Chains that Bind", aimed at providing help for Birmingham's black residents seeking to improve themselves. She then researched and wrote a broader study of conditions in black Birmingham entitled Behind the Ebony Mask, which was published by the Southern University Press in 1961.
Moore was hired by the News as a part-time contributor in 1953, to take over the "What Negroes Are Doing" column from Oscar Adams Sr. She became a full-time staffer in 1964.