Dr. Verba Moore, a Biloxi, MS native, is the first African American woman to obtain board certification in Aerospace Medicine upon completion of her residency at the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine and had numerous stateside and overseas assignments including Korea, Germany and Iraq.  Her interest in history led her to participate in the Biloxi Middle Passage Marker Committee functioning as the primary researcher for the history of the first enslaved Africans arrival in Biloxi.