Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who suffered persecution and persevered while leading black voter registration drives in the South of America during the 1960s and later aid improvement of minority education in math, has died.
He died at the age of 86.
Moses put in a lot of effort to break down 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 Mississippi.
Moses began his “second chapter in civil rights work” by founding in 1982 the Algebra Project thanks to a MacArthur Fellowship. The project included a curriculum Moses developed to help poor students succeed in math.
Ben Moynihan, the Director of Operations for the Algebra Project, said he had talked with Moses’ wife, Dr Janet Moses, and she said her husband had passed away recently in Hollywood, Florida.
