Fred R. Moore

He worked to promote the National Negro Business League founded by Washington in 1900.

He became editor and publisher of the Colored American Magazine in 1905, through Washington's influence.

He married Ida Lawrence April 9, 1879 and they had numerous children.

Again through Washington, he bought New York Age newspaper from Timothy Thomas Fortune and Jerome B. Peterson, and Moore became editor and purported owner in 1907,[3] a position he held until his death.

[1] He was a Republican, and U.S. president William H. Taft appointed him Minister to Liberia but he served for only a month.