In this Feb. 5, 2014, file photo, Robert Bob Moses, a director of the Mississippi Summer Project and organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, answers questions about Freedom Summer in 1964 during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History in Jackson, Miss. AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who 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 Non-Violent 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.
Bob Moses, U.S. civil rights leader of the 1960s, dies at 86 By Syndicated Content
By Daniel Trotta
(Reuters) â Bob Moses, a civil rights leader who took part in some of the most significant campaigns for equality in the Deep South in the 1960s and later became an advocate for African Americans to succeed in math, died on Sunday at age 86, the NAACP said.
Moses is the latest African American leader of that era to die in the past year, including John Lewis, Vernon Jordan, C.T. Vivian, Charles Evers, and Gloria Richardson.
âHe was a strategist at the core of the voting rights movement and beyond. He was a giant,â Derrick Johnson, president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, wrote on Twitter.
Robert Bob Moses led Black voter registration drives in the South during the 1964 Freedom Summer effort and later, founded a math training program to educate students in underfunded public schools.
Civil rights leader Robert Bob Moses, a soft-spoken and self-effacing grassroots organizer who championed Black voting rights, died on Sunday at age 86.
Born and raised in Harlem, N.Y., Moses went to the South to join the nascent fight for civil rights in the early 1960s, ultimately becoming a central figure in the movement.
As a leader in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in deeply segregated Mississippi, Moses worked to hand political power to Black people through voting education and voter registration drives. He continued to push education to the forefront of the civil rights agenda when in the 80s he founded the Algebra Project, a math training program focused on empowering students from underfunded public schools and poor communities.
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Fauci says US headed in `wrong direction’ on coronavirus
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) The United States is in an “unnecessary predicament” of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nation’s top infectious diseases expert said Sunday.
“We’re going in the wrong direction,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, describing himself as “very frustrated.”
He said recommending that the vaccinated wear masks is “under active consideration” by the government’s leading public health officials. Also, booster shots may be suggested for people with suppressed immune systems who have been vaccinated, Fauci said.
Fauci says US headed in `wrong direction on coronavirus
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) â The United States is in an âunnecessary predicamentâ of soaring COVID-19 cases fueled by unvaccinated Americans and the virulent delta variant, the nationâs top infectious diseases expert said Sunday.
âWeâre going in the wrong direction,â said Dr. Anthony Fauci, describing himself as âvery frustrated.â
He said recommending that the vaccinated wear masks is âunder active considerationâ by the governmentâs leading public health officials. Also, booster shots may be suggested for people with suppressed immune systems who have been vaccinated, Fauci said.
Fauci, who also serves as President Joe Bidenâs chief medical adviser, told CNNâs State of the Union that he has taken part in conversations about altering the mask guidelines.