This work has led Algebra Project to propose a math high school “benchmark” for bottom quartile students: that they graduate high school on time, in four years, ready to do college math for college credit. With support from the National Science Foundation since 2002, the Algebra Project has been working with cohorts of high school students who previously performed in the lowest quartile on standardized exams. Moses received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1982-87) and subsequently started the Algebra Project, which uses mathematics as an organizing tool for a “Quality Education as a Constitutional Right” for all students. He helped to lead the Council of Federated Organizations into the Mississippi Summer Project - 1964 Freedom Summer - which parachuted the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City.

In 1961, Moses initiated SNCC’s Mississippi Voter Registration Project and was appointed its director in 1962. Moses was a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement as a field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1957. Robert “Bob” Parris Moses earned his bachelor’s degree from Hamilton College in 1956 and his M.A. The program brought volunteers, including many white students from the North, to join local efforts at voter registration and education.īob Moses, 2010 (photo courtesy Michael Lisnet, Math for America) Here's a short clip from the PBS documentary series, 'Eyes on the Prize,' when l ocal NAACP leader Amzie Moore asked SNCC organizer Bob Moses to open offices in the state. Moses spent the early 1960s working for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, organizing sharecroppers in Greenwood, Mississippi, to demand the right to vote.

13, but weather forced us to alter our plans for this event. Moderating the event was Stephen Preskill, Distinguished Professor of Civic Engagement and Leadership at Wagner College. The program was originally scheduled for Feb. On Wednesday, March 12, civil rights leader and education reform activist Bob Moses was the featured speaker for Wagner College's second annual Black History Month Scholar Symposium.

Radical Equations by Robert P. Moses