Bob Moses, Civil Rights Activist, Dies at Age 86

Civil Rights activist Robert Parris Moses has died at age 86. Moses was shot, beaten, and in jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s. Later on, Moses helped improve minority education in math. Bob worked to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Bob Moses was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of students went to the South to register to vote.

Historian Taylor Branch stated this on Bob Moses; “Aside from having attracted the same sort of adoration among young people in the movement that Martin Luther King did in adults, Moses represented a separate conception of leadership as arising from and being carried on by ordinary people.”

Source: NPR