Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights activist, dies at 86: Official

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. — Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail whereas main Black voter registration drives within the American South through the Sixties and later helped enhance minority schooling in math, has died. He was 86.

Moses labored to dismantle segregation because the Mississippi discipline director of the Pupil Non-Violent Coordinating Committee through the civil rights motion and was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer season” in Mississippi.

Moses began his “second chapter in civil rights work” by founding in 1982 the Algebra Undertaking due to a MacArthur Fellowship. The undertaking included a curriculum Moses developed to assist poor college students reach math.

Ben Moynihan, the director of operations for the Algebra Undertaking, stated he had talked with Moses’ spouse, Dr. Janet Moses, and she or he stated her husband had handed away Sunday morning in Hollywood, Florida.