Rain didn't keep the city of Sanford from commemorating the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on Saturday, but it did force city leaders to move the celebration from Historic Sanford Memorial Stadium to City Hall.

The guest of honor was Evangeline Moore, the daughter of slain Brevard County NAACP leader Harry T. Moore.

Harry T. Moore and his wife, Harriet, died after a bomb went off under their bed in Mims in 1951.

Evangeline still remembers how her uncle told her the news after she came home from Washington, D.C.

"I guess I have to be the one to tell you — your house was bombed Christmas night," Moore recalled. "Your dad's dead and your mom's in the hospital."

Moore flew in from Maryland for Saturday's event, which was also designed to celebrate her father's contributions to the civil rights movement — including his demands for investigations into lynching and other injustices.

There was barely a mention of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman on Saturday, but that case isn't completely out of peoples' minds.

"It reminded me of my father's and mother's case because nobody was prosecuted for killing them," Moore said. "I just have to console myself with the fact that God's taking care of them, and it's much worse than if man had taken care of them here on Earth."

Earlier this week, the Department of Justice decided not to press federal charges against Zimmerman in the shooting death of Martin.

Seminole County NAACP Executive Board Member Kenneth Bentley did a roll call recognizing local civil rights contributors at Saturday's event.

He said he wasn't surprised the Department of Justice didn't pursue federal charges against Zimmerman.

"After 50 years, there's been changes, but everything is not perfect," Bentley said. "We still have a way to go. We're a work in progress."

Sanford City Commissioner Velma Williams shared a similar sentiment, although she kept her focus on Harry T. Moore and the Civil Rights Act.

"That's a history closed chapter in our lives as far as we're concerned," Williams said. "You have African-Americans who are maybe 40 years of age and younger who were maybe deva stated and overwhelmed over what really happened. Whereas the rest of us were disappointed, but we're not surprised."

Sen. Geraldine Thompson, D-District 12, represents western Orange County. She told the crowd that Harry T. Moore's contributions to the Civil Rights Movement should be celebrated and recognized as much as Martin Luther King Jr. and other famous civil rights leaders.