![]() He used funding from a 1982 MacArthur Fellowship to create the Algebra Project, which aimed to improve math education in under-resourced schools. in the late 1970s and received a PhD in philosophy from Harvard. Moses moved to Tanzania and worked for the Ministry of Education there. ![]() In 1966, disillusioned by the persistence of Jim Crow legislation in the U.S. Undeterred, he became a co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations and was active in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. ![]() Moses was beaten, arrested, and shot at for his efforts. He directed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s Mississippi Project, helping register Black voters in the historically intolerant Amite County, Mississippi. A year later, he earned an MA in philosophy from Harvard, and in the early 1960s, he became active in the civil rights movement. Moses grew up in Harlem and received a BA from Hamilton College in 1956. ![]() Robert Parris (Bob) Moses, a civil rights activist and the recipient of an honorary doctor of humane letters from Penn in 2017 ( Almanac January 31, 2017), passed away on July 25. Robert Parris Moses, Honorary Degree Recipient ![]()
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