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Robert Moses, 1960s Civil Rights Activist and Math Education Advocate, Has Died Subscribe 5 min read Robert Bob Moses answers questions about Freedom Summer in 1964 during a 2014 national youth summit at the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, Miss.Rogelio V. Solis/Associated Press Share article Copy URL 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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