23, 1935, two months after a race riot left three dead and injured 60 in the neighbourhood. Moses was born in Harlem, in New York City, on Jan. Information was not given as to the cause of death. Janet Moses, and she said her husband had died Sunday morning in Hollywood, Fla. The project included a curriculum Moses developed to help poor students succeed in math.īen Moynihan, director of operations for the Algebra Project, said he had talked with Moses's wife, Dr. He started his "second chapter in civil rights work" by founding in 1982 the Algebra Project thanks to a MacArthur Fellowship. Moses worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent 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 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.
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