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Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom ...
January 23, 1935. Although he avoided publicity and was reluctant to assert himself as a leader, Robert Parris Moses became one of the most influential black leaders of the southern civil rights struggle. His vision of grassroots, community-based leadership differed from Martin Luther King’s charismatic leadership style.
25 de jul. de 2021 · Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later...
26 de jul. de 2021 · El activista Robert Parris Moses, quien luchó por los derechos de las minorías en Estados Unidos, murió el 25 de julio, a la edad de 86 años.
25 de jul. de 2021 · Bob Moses, a soft-spoken pioneer of the civil rights movement who faced relentless intimidation and brutal violence to register Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, and who later started a...
25 de jul. de 2021 · Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the South during the 1960s and later helped improve minority...
8 de jun. de 2017 · In Robert Parris Moses: A Life in Civil Rights and Leadership at the Grassroots, Laura Visser-Maessen cautions them against what Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) worker James Forman referred to in the 1960s as “‘Local people-itis,’ the idea that ‘local people could do no wrong,’ and that ‘no-one ...
