Bob Moses Activist Obituary – Death: “Civil Rights Activist Bob Moses Dies At 86″
An American educator and civil rights activist, Robert Parris Moses, better known as Bob Moses, has died. Moses died on July 25, 2021. He was 86 years old at the time of his death.
A cause of death was not immediately known.
Moses was born January 31, 1935 in Harlem, New York City. He was a graduate of Hamilton College and completed a master’s in philosophy at Harvard University.
Moses is well known for his work as the head of the Nonviolent Student Coordinating Committee on Education and Voter Registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and for his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
Moses began developing the National Algebra Project in the United States in 1982. He received a MacArthur Fellowship and other awards for this work, which emphasizes teaching algebra skills to minority students based on a large community organization and collaboration with parents, teachers and students.
1960’s civil rights leader Bob Moses has died. After his work registering POC voters in Mississippi, he picked up the civil rights torch 20 years later by founding the Algebra Project, a math education initiative aimed at rural and inner-city students. He died July 25 at 86. RIP!
— George#VotesBlueAlways (@Numbers28) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, 1960s civil rights leader who saw math as road to equality, dies at 86 – The Washington Post
— Life-Writing Guru (@AncestoralVoice) July 26, 2021
I was fortunate enough to teach the geometry curriculum offered by the algebra project. I will always be inspired by Bob and the algebra projects work. Quality education in mathematics is most certainly a civil right that I aim to support and defend. Rest in power to Bob Moses
— Tanya LaMar (@TanyaLaMar1) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, may you Rest In Peace. Civil rights activist and math literacy advocate “Algebra Project”.
— Je-Meng (@jemenger) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, Crusader for Civil Rights and Math Education, Dies at 86 – The New York Times.
— Eager Beaver (@eagerbeavertech) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, Crusader for Civil Rights and Math Education, Dies at 86 #Education
— Lucian Andrei (@Lucian2drei) July 26, 2021
“Civil Rights Activist Bob Moses Dies At 86 : NPR”
— Demby (@Sirdemby) July 26, 2021
RIP Mr. Bob Moses
— Chantelle Valentine-LaVorie (@Only1intheUSA) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, Crusader for Civil Rights and Math Education, Dies at 86
— Gary Corbitt (@corbittg) July 26, 2021
Civil rights activist Bob Moses, who led Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s, has died. He was 86. pic.twitter.com/IxtCUYU9xq
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) July 26, 2021
Bob Moses, Civil Rights Leader And Longtime Educator, Dies At 86
— Political Scrutiny 101 (@PoliScrutiny101) July 26, 2021