Honoring the Memory of Harry T. and Harriette Moore, Murdered in 1951: H.R. 2238 Unanimously Passed U.S. Senate Yesterday --- Next Stop, Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol?

It happened in America, in Mims, Florida, on Christmas Day, 1951 --- married civil rights heroes murdered in their bed by bombers. on the night of their 25th wedding anniversary  The Moores had documented crimes by law enforcement. They had registered 100,000 African-Americans to vote in Florida.  Then they paid with their lives. Harry died that day, after a slow drive to a distant segregated hospital.  Harriette survived until January 3, 1952.
Fast forward now more than half a century, to two days after Christmas, 2012.
Yesterday, our United States Senators unanimously adopted H.R. 2238, designating the United States Post Office at 600 Florida Avenue in Cocoa, Florida as the "Harry T. and Harriette Moore Post Office."  The bill, sponsored by 24 Florida members of the U.S. House of Representatives, passed the House last month and the Senate last night.
H.R. 2238 now goes to President Obama for his signature.  No date for Post Office dedication yet.
No one was ever convicted of the hate crime bombing of the Moores, bombed as they slept and denied decent care by the Jim Crow segregation in Florida.   You won't find the Moores memorialized at the Southern Poverty Law Center -- too early -- their memorial starts with 1954.   For years they were like prophets unhonored by their own state, or NAACP, which did not appreciate Moore during his lifetime, and fired him from his organizing job before his death (and never paid him what it owed him)..
My late mentor, civil rights hero Stetson Kennedy, was the Moores' friend: he shared with me the unexpurgated FBI files on the crime.  He reasonably believed that a violent Lake County Florida Sheriff and his henchmen were involved in the murder.  A 2005 Florida Attorney General report shared this view.
The President needs to direct the FBI to get off its keester and start working harder on civil rights cases.  There are unsolved hate crimes that local law enforcement bungled, possibly including local bicyclists killed in a spate of hit-and-run accidents.
Thanks to U.S. Rep. William Posey (R-15th) for sponsoring the legislation.
Enactment of the Moore Post office bill was tripartisan and organic, with only one non-profit (Youth Villages) disclosing lobbying for H.R. 2238.
As a Florida State House member, Posey won support for developing and designating the Moore homesite a Florida Historical Heritage Landmark.   Brevard County named its Justice Center for the Moores.

Meanwhile, the Moores need to be honored forever on Capitol Hill, with a statute in Statuary Hall.
Florida's two current Statuary Hall statues in the U.S. Capitol are to (1) freed-slave-soldier-prisoner-killing Confederate General Edmund Kirby Smith and (2) Dr. John Gorrie, M.D., physician, humanitarian and first inventor of air conditioning (patent no 8080). 
In their next session, our Florida state legislators ought to vote to withdraw one of  those two statues.
In place of one of those statues, Florida should commission and install a statue portraying Harry T. and Harriett Moore, as a tribute to all Floridians who worked to win our Civil Rights, 1513-2013.
I would vote to withdraw the Edmund Kirby Smith statue in light of Smith's orders to kill African-American prisoners of war during the Civil War.  The Confederates have had his monument in Statuary Hall since 1922, when the KKK ran the State of Florida. They've had their turn -- now it's our turn.  
Statuary Hall Procedure:  States can and do withdraw and replace one of their statues at any time for any reason (as Kansas and California did in 2003 and 2009 in recognizing Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan, respectively).