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Moses, Robert Parris (Personal Name)

Preferred form: Moses, Robert Parris
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  • Moses, Bob, 1935-

And gently he shall lead them, c1994: CIP t.p. (Robert Parris Moses)

The children Bob Moses led, 1995.

Moses, Robert P. Radical equations, c2001: ECIP t.p. (Robert P. Moses) bk. jkt. (Bob Moses went to MS in 1961, worked to organize Black voters; founded national math literacy program called Algebra Project)

Contemp. Black Biography, v. 11 (Robert Parris Moses; born Jan. 23, 1935 in NYC; MA, PhD candidate 1977-1982 ; dedicated activist and mathematics teacher; dir., Algebra Proj., 1982- )

Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century, accessed February 27, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Moses, Robert Parris; civil rights activist, educational reform advocate, pacifist; born 23 January 1935 in New York, New York, United States; completed Hamilton College in Upstate New York; earned MA in philosophy from Harvard University (1957); worked for Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta (SCLC) (1960); was Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) field director in Mississippi (1961-1965); was instrumental in forming the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), an umbrella organization encouraging cooperation among civil rights groups; helped establish the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged regular party delegates at the Democratic National Convention (1964); honors include, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, which funded the Algebra Project used in curricula throughout the US)

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