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Robert Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86

Robert Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86
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1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what s clicking on Foxnews.com. Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86. Moses, who was widely referred to as Bob, worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 Freedom Summer in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters.

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Civil rights icon Robert Parris Moses dies in the USA

I never knew that there was (the) denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States. The young civil rights advocate tried to register Black people to vote in Mississippi s rural Amite County where he was beaten and arrested. When he tried to file charges against a white assailant, an all-white jury acquitted the man and a judge provided protection to Moses to the county line so he could leave. In 1963, he and two other activists â James Travis and Randolph Blackwell â were driving in Greenwood, Mississippi, when someone opened fire on them and the 20-year-old Travis was hit.

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Civil Rights Activist Bob Moses Dies At 86

Rogelio V. Solis / AP Originally published on July 25, 2021 5:12 pm Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died. He was 86. Moses, who was widely referred to as Bob, worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement and was central to the 1964 Freedom Summer in which hundreds of students went to the South to register voters. Moses started his second chapter in civil rights work by founding in 1982 the Algebra Project thanks to a MacArthur Fellowship. The project included a curriculum Moses developed to help struggling students succeed in math.

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Robert Moses,1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86

Robert Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86 Share Updated: 8:00 PM EDT Jul 25, 2021 By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press Robert Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86 Share Updated: 8:00 PM EDT Jul 25, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript I got vaccinated in january and at the beginning of february with the Pfizer vaccine, I had no ill effects, as was the case in the civil rights movement. Enough people see the rightness of this is a decision that they should make for themselves, for their neighbors, for their family and for everyone, But they will decide on their own that this is the thing that we have to do, but now that we have an illness that uniquely targets and does great damage to our elderly. The fact that those are the folks who were in church, those are the ones who most likely support what happens in a church community means that the church has now become a really effective tool for spreading the word and convinci

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