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Civil rights icon Bob Moses was a visionary who risked life and limb for his community
Bob Moses fought for racial justice until his very last breath, says his friend and fellow U.S. civil rights activist Courtland Cox.
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U.S. civil rights activist Courtland Cox remembers his friend and colleague, who died at the age of 86
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Posted: Jul 26, 2021 5:58 PM ET | Last Updated: July 26
Robert (Bob) Moses, a veteran civil rights activist and founder of the Algebra Project, a math literacy program in Mississippi, has died.(Rogelio Solis/The Associated Press)
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2021/07/26 10:52 FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows Robert Bob Moses, a director of the Mississippi Summer Project and organizer for the Student Non-Violen. FILE - In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows Robert Bob Moses, a director of the Mississippi Summer Project and organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) answers questions about Freedom Summer in 1964 during a national youth summit hosted by the Smithsonian s National Museum of American History, at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss. 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, died Sunday, July 25, 2021, in Hollywood, Fla. He was 86. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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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. Rogelio V. Solis/AP
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 pro
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