Richard Benjamin Moore (9 August 1893 – 1978) was a Barbados-born Afro-Caribbean civil rights activist, writer and prominent socialist.
Richard Henry Moore the family's moneymaker, worked as a preacher and building contractor in Barbados.
[citation needed] The struggles that Moore encountered and observed made him become a strong advocate for the rights of African Americans.
Moore, like his friend Hubert Harrison, was a bibliophile, collecting over 15,000 books and pamphlets on the African-American experiences worldwide.
Moore wrote a few books himself, including The Name "Negro": Its Origin and Evil Use (1960) and Caribs, Cannibals and Human Relations (1972).
He also had essays and articles published in various magazines and journals, including the Negro Champion, Daily Worker, and Freedomways.