Civil rights legend Bob Moses, the architect of the 1964 voter registration campaign, has died, the NAACP says. He was 86.
A cause of death was not immediately known.Moses was born in New York City in January 1935 and grew up in Harlem, according to his biography on Stanford University's King Encyclopedia of civil rights figures. He earned a master's degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1957.In the late 1950's he began working on the civil rights movement, joining the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and traveling with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.
He used his fellowship to create the Algebra Project, a national program that encourages African-American students to attend college by first teaching them mathematical literacy.The Algebra Project released a statement following the news of Moses's death.
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Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has diedBREAKING: Bob Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died at 86.
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Official: 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses has diedBREAKING: Bob Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority education in math, has died at 86.
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