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BayStateBanner
April 27, 2018
Or better, as fellow SNCC activist Bob Moses of Cambridge put it: “Black by birth, a Jew by choice and a revolutionary by necessity.” That revolutionary spirit led him to fighting for African American rights after entering the historically black South Carolina State College in Orangeburg in 1959, as the CivilÃâà...
The Daily Princetonian
April 8, 2018
Bob Moses started his talk yesterday by asking the audience to say the words of the Preamble of the U.S. Constitution with him. “I'm going to ask you to think about the Preamble, and whether you can own it,” Moses said. Moses is an educator and activist who was involved in the Student NonviolentÃâà...
Waging Nonviolence
April 5, 2018
This narrative was never represented by the lives of Vincent Harding, Bob Moses, Ruby Sales, Grace Lee Boggs, and many of their peers who joined us at .... I will never forget the eloquence of veteran SNCC activist Gwendolyn Zoharah Simmons' response to a young brother in Brussels when heÃâà...
Duke Today
March 21, 2018
In 1961, Freedom Riders rolled through Mississippi to Jackson. All are jailed in Jackson, and then sent to the notorious Parchman Prison Farm. A few months later, local leaders ask SNCC to send organizers. Their task was to register voters. Left to right: Bob Moses, Julian Bond, Curtis Hayes, unidentified,Ãâà...
The Daily Princetonian
March 2, 2018
I'm not good at writing on a deadline. I often tell people this is the reason why I don't want to be a writer. Nobody wants to become a writer, other aspiring writers have knowledgeably informed me. It's not something that you set out to do; it just happens. And then they return to edit the fifth draft of their novel,Ãâà...
Minnesota Daily
February 7, 2018
The man she followed that day, Bob Moses, leader of the SNCC, gave her a desk and a typewriter and asked her to join the Movement. It was the beginning of something extraordinary. Holland, who died 12 years ago this month, earned her GED and eventually enrolled here, at the University of Minnesota,Ãâà...
pridepublishinggroup.com
January 25, 2018
Moore developed a relationship with Bob Moses when Moses was recruiting SNCC volunteers from Mississippi. But Moore flipped the recruitment drive on its head. Moore felt that, while it was fine for SNCC to recruit young people from Mississippi as it was doing, it would be even better if SNCC sentÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
January 23, 2018
January 23, 1935: Bob Moses was born in Harlem, New York. He became a field secretary for SNCC and began work in the civil rights movement in Mississippi in 1961, helping organize voter registration, sit-ins, Freedom Schools and finally Freedom Summer, where college students from the North came toÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
January 15, 2018
Seven years later, he welcomed Bob Moses to stay with him when Moses began his voter registration work in Mississippi. ... State police occupy the campus to try and end these protests, and when SNCC field secretary Dion Diamond tried to meet with students, police jailed him on charges of criminalÃâà...
The New York Review of Books
January 10, 2018
Charles Neblett and Selyn McCollum had both been Freedom Riders, and both worked for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The next morning, in a small black church, I listened to a speech by a local high school student and movement leader, Charles Kohn. In the corner sat JohnÃâà...
TIME
December 8, 2017
“This is Mississippi, the middle of the iceberg. This is a tremor in the middle of the iceberg from a stone that the builders rejected,” Bob Moses, the director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)'s Mississippi project, wrote in 1961 from a jail cell in Magnolia, Miss., where he and 11 otherÃâà...
Jackson Clarion Ledger
July 25, 2017
... a youth and began helping Bob Moses with voter registration efforts in 1961. He took part in integrating the Woolworth's lunch counter in McComb and was jailed for 34 days. He helped students at the all-black high school lead a walkout, which led to another 39 days in jail. As a field secretary for SNCC,Ãâà...
East Bay Times
February 17, 2017
The Barbara Lee and Elihu Harris Lecture Series will present Bob Moses, Civil Rights Movement leader and the president and founder of the Algebra Project ... OAKLAND — Bob Moses drove through machine-gun fire in the early 1960s as he worked to get some of Mississippi's first African-American votersÃâà...
Chicago Tribune
May 4, 2016
Raised in Harlem, Moses did not spend any time in the Deep South until the summer of 1960, when he left on a recruiting trip for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). No one in the SNCC wanted to go to Mississippi, where — if permitted to register — blacks would comprise close to halfÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
After a Mississippi sheriff had beaten a S.N.C.C. leader, Mr. McDew said, he and his colleagues contemplated making a citizens' arrest. .... church in the South in the 1960s, leading his fellow S.N.C.C. leader, Bob Moses, to describe him as “a black by birth, a Jew by choice and a revolutionary by necessity.
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