The other person who moves is Robert Spike. One is Allard Lowenstein, who was dean of freshmen at Yale, had been dean of freshman at Stanford and was a kind of Democratic operative, right, in the Humphrey wing of the Democratic Party, right, he comes down into the state to check out what’s going on in Mississippi because of Medgar, right? So Medgar is assassinated on June 11, 1963, and several things shift because of his assassination. So, actually, one of the main ways in which we get to Freedom Summer is when Medgar is assassinated. You’re one of the main organizers of the Freedom Summer project, which was a big drive to register voters in the Deep South. JAY: So we’re going to pick up the story in the early ’60s. He’s the author of Radical Equations: Civil Rights for Mississippi to the Algebra Project. ‘Ninety-two, he received the MacArthur Fellowship, which he used to develop the Algebra Project, an organization aimed at improving math education in poor communities. From ’69 to ’75 he worked as a teacher in Tanzania. He was an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War. During the 1960s he was a field secretary for SNCC, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, as well as one of the main organizers of the Mississippi Freedom Summer project that helped register black voters in the Deep South. JAY: Bob Moses is an educator and civil rights activist. Thanks for joining us.īOB MOSES, EDUCATOR AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Yeah. And welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself with Robert Moses. PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome back to The Real News Network. Moses says one of the main ways we get to Freedom Summer is the assassination of Medgar Evers.
We commemorate his work with a replay of his appearance on Reality Asserts Itself with Paul Jay, first released on June 20, 2014. Sad news that Bob Moses, a leader of the civil rights movement, died on July 25, 2021.
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