On the Road to Civil Rights

Inman Moore grew up in Southern Mississippi, mainly along the Gulf Coast. He is a graduate of Long Beach High School, Mississippi, and Millsaps College, Jackson, Mississippi, and holds a graduate degree in theology from the Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. Inman has been pastor of churches in both Mississippi and California. While in Mississippi, during the late fifties and early sixties, Inman was very involved in the civil rights movement. He was a founding member of the reconstituted Mississippi Council on Human Relations. In January of 1963, while pastor of Leggett Memorial United Methodist Church in Biloxi, Mississippi, he was one of twenty-eight Mississippi ministers who signed a statement on civil rights entitled Born of Conviction. In April of 1963, Inman and his family moved to California, to a pastorate in Palmdale.