Doris Miller

ID: 566 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University
This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School
Doris Miller

A former Moore High student and navy cook, Doris Miller was the first African American to be awarded the Navy Cross. Unfortunately, he was killed in action in 1943.

This file appears in: A. J. Moore High School

By Amanda Sawyer
In 1875, Professor Alexander James Moore of Paul Quinn College, concerned at the lack of quality education for African American children in Waco, began teaching small groups of young children out of his home. Though Reconstruction Legislature of…