However, after facing family issues she would remain in the United States, moving first to California then to Chicago before settling in Harlem, New York with her husband and sisters in 1922.

In 1957, Moore presented a petition to the United Nations and a second in 1959, arguing for self-determination, against genocide, for land and reparations, making her an international advocate.

Interviewed by E. Menelik Pinto, Moore explained the petition, in which she asked for 200 billion dollars to monetarily compensate for 400 years of slavery.

She would also travel to Guinea Bissau as the guest of Amilcar Cabral, to Nigeria for the Festival of Arts and Culture, and return to Tanzania for the sixth Pan-African Congress, and to Uganda.

[1] In 1990, Blakely took her to meet Nelson Mandela after his release from prison in South Africa, at the residence of President Kenneth Kaunda in Lusaka, Zambia.

In 1996, Blakely assisted Moore in enstooling Winnie Mandela in the presence of the Ausar Auset Society International at the Lowes Victoria Theater (New York City) 5 at 125th Street, Harlem.

Congressman Charles Rangel, NYC Mayor David Dinkins and U.S. Presidential Candidate Jesse Jackson honored, supported, acknowledged, respected and insured the well-being of Moore as a Royal Elder in the Harlem community.

[3] She advocated for a stance that recognized that the violence inflicted on African people during the time periods of the Middle Passage, Jim Crow Laws, and Slavery was a form of cultural destruction, and that extensive grassroots work and economic restitution was needed to restore communities .

[4] Moore officially integrated a stance on reparations into her activism work in the 1960’s, when forming the Universal Association of Ethiopian Women (UAEW).

[3] Through her work with the UAEW, Moore advocated for policy such as welfare benefits as a form of reparations for the sexual violence inflicted on Black women by white men.

The UAEW also created an extensive mutual aid network, collecting food and other resources for Black women who lost access to welfare benefits due to being deemed unfit mothers under Suitable Home Law, a set of policies that targeted women who did not conform to ideals of white motherhood and domesticity.

[6] In 1962 Moore moved to Philadelphia and joined the National Emancipation Proclamation Centennial Observance Committee (NEPCOC), around the same time that the group was overhauling its mission, transitioning from a commemorative organization to one that was active in the fight for civil rights.

In April 1962 the group held All-Africans Freedom Day Celebrations, where the NEPCOC announced its national mission to fight for reparations.

While it appears that this action may not have materialized, the NEPCOC did organize a series of lectures on the topic of reparations, some of which include Moore as a keynote speaker.

[3] Moore’s role in the NEPCOC led to a conference for the drafting and finalizing of a resolution that outlined the legal and judicial justification for reparations in the United States.