Even the beach was off-limit for blacks. Moore related that the three days after Labor Day were the only times they were allowed in Ocean City on the Boardwalk. "One day was for blacks from Virginia, blacks from Maryland, and blacks from Delaware…[only] for three days."

Moore went into the military, becoming a military policeman and paratrooper, before he attended Delaware State University and earned at teaching degree. He returned to Selbyville to teach physical education at his old elementary school, and saw major changes in the town and in the State. In 1960, he served on a human relations commission, at a time when "it was unheard of a black being elected to any office here in Sussex County or Selbyville."

He served two five-year terms on the Indian River School Board. "That in itself shows the change of the thinking in the political climate," Moore noted. Eventually, he became a school administrator in nearby Maryland and witnessed the final integration of the high school there, in 1970. "Well, I guess…the acceptance of integration slowly has evolved to where now I feel it is fully accepted."