Dr. Robert Moses to speak at NVHC

The
1964 Freedom Summer as a Preamble to Constitutional Personhood.

Dr. Robert “Bob” Parris Moses was
a prominent figure in the Civil Rights Movement as a field secretary for the
Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1961, Moses initiated
SNCC’s Mississippi Voter Registration Project, and was appointed its director
in 1962. He helped to lead the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) into the
Mississippi Summer Project (1964 Freedom Summer), which parachuted the
Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP) to the National Democratic
Convention in Atlantic City.

He 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.  

Dr. Moses is co-author of Radical
Equations—Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (2001) and
co-editor of Quality Education as a Constitutional Right-creating a
grassroots movement to transform public schools (2010).