By: Alyssa Wilson Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist essential in the fight for voting rights, died at the age of 86 on Sunday. According to NBC News, Moses led voter registration drives in the South in the 1960s. He also worked to improve minority education in multiple subjects, including math, through the Algebra Project founded in 1982. RELATED: Former Vice President Walter Mondale Dead at 93 He was a pioneer working to dismantle segregation as the Mississippi field director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the Associated Press reported. He was also a key figure in the 1964 Freedom Summer, wherein hundreds of […]
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