American civil rights activist Robert Moses dies at the age of 86
Robert Parris Moses, an American civil rights activist, endured beatings and imprisonment while leading a black voter registration campaign in the southern United States In the 1960s He later helped improve mathematics education for ethnic minorities. He has died at the age of 86.
During the Civil Rights Movement, as the Mississippi Field Director of the Student Nonviolence Coordination Committee, Moses was committed to eliminating apartheid and was The “Summer of Freedom” in 1964 Hundreds of them went to the south to register voters.
Moses founded the Algebra Project in 1982 and began his “Chapter Two of Civil Rights Work”, which included courses developed by Moses to help poor students succeed in mathematics.
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