Bob Moses

Robert Parris Moses was born on the twenty-third of January 1935 at Harlem, New York, the son of Gregory H. Moses — a Black security guard of the New York 369th Coast Artillery Regiment of the New York National Guard — and Louise Parris Moses, a homemaker. He was raised in the working-class Black-Harlem household of his parents across the closing decade of the inter-war period.

He was placed at six at the principal Harlem Public Schools and at the Stuyvesant High School at Manhattan — the principal post-war Manhattan academically-selective public secondary school of the closing years of the post-war period. He completed the bachelor of arts at the Hamilton College at Clinton, New York in 1956 — among the early Black-Hamilton College post-1956 graduates of the closing years of the post-war period — and the master of arts in philosophy at Harvard University in 1957.

He taught mathematics at the Horace Mann School at the Bronx from 1957 to 1961 — the closing-period Manhattan-and-Bronx-academically-selective independent secondary school of the closing years of the post-war period.

He travelled to Atlanta in the summer of 1960 and joined the principal closing-period SNCC Atlanta headquarters at the closing months of the principal post-1960 SNCC closing-period programmes — at the principal closing-period closing-period SNCC closing-period programmes of the closing months of 1960.

He was named in 1960 the principal closing-period SNCC Mississippi-field-organiser at the closing-period closing-period Pike-County-Mississippi closing-period programmes of the closing months of the principal post-1960 SNCC Mississippi closing-period programmes.

He directed the principal closing-period SNCC Mississippi field organisation from 1961 to 1964 — across the principal closing-period Mississippi-McComb-and-Greenwood-and-Belzoni-and-Indianola Black-voter-registration closing-period programmes of the closing years of the closing-period closing-period 1961 to 1964 SNCC closing-period programmes.

He co-founded in 1964 the Council of Federated Organizations at Jackson, Mississippi — the principal closing-period Mississippi-NAACP-CORE-SCLC-SNCC closing-period inter-organisational coordinating-body of the closing months of the principal post-1964 Mississippi closing-period closing-period programmes.

He was the principal closing-period architect of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer — the principal closing-period closing-period Mississippi-Freedom-Summer Black-voter-registration-and-Freedom-School closing-period closing-period programmes of the principal post-1964 closing-period Mississippi closing-period programmes of the closing months of June to August 1964.

He travelled to the principal closing-period Atlantic City, New Jersey 1964 Democratic National Convention at the principal closing-period August 1964 closing-period programmes — at the principal closing-period Mississippi-Freedom-Democratic-Party closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of August 1964.

He was a conscientious objector during the closing-period Vietnam War and lived in Tanzania from 1969 to 1976 — at the principal closing-period closing-period Tanzania Pan-African closing-period programmes of the closing months of the closing-period 1969 to 1976 closing-period programmes.

He founded in 1982 the Algebra Project at Cambridge, Massachusetts — the principal closing-period Black-middle-school-mathematics-and-curricular-reform closing-period programmes of the closing years of the closing-period 1982 to 2021 closing-period programmes — on the principal closing-period MacArthur Genius Fellowship of 1982.

He was awarded the principal MacArthur Genius Fellowship in 1982.

He died at Hollywood, Florida on the twenty-fifth of July 2021 of complications of natural causes, at eighty-six.

He is honored here as the principal architect of the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer.