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Rebecca SantanaJuly 25, 2021
In this Feb. 5, 2014 file photo shows Robert Bob Moses answering questions about Freedom Summer in 1964 in Jackson, Miss. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis, File)
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 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.
Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has died
Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee during the civil rights movement. Author: REBECCA SANTANA (Associated Press) Published: 3:08 PM CDT July 25, 2021 Updated: 3:08 PM CDT July 25, 2021
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 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.
Robert Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86
By Rebecca Santana
Civil rights activist Robert Moses passes away at 86
Robert Parris Moses, the civil rights activist who rose to prominence in the 1960s, passed away on July 25 at the age of 86.
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 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.
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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)