![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He returned to Mississippi after teaching the 1960–1961 school year in New York, where he organized and registered thousands of poor, illiterate, and rural Black residents to vote. (7) Moses visited Mississippi in the summer of 1960, and met with local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leaders who indicated the need to focus on voter registration. (6) In 1959, Moses helped with the second Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, DC. (5) His doctorate studies in mathematics were halted due to the death of his mother and the hospitalization of his father. (4) Moses earned a scholarship to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1957. (3) Moses grew up in Harlem River Houses and was one of only a handful of Black students at the time who was admitted to Stuyvesant High School. (2) Robert Parris Moses is regarded as an influential civil rights activist, peace activist, public education advocate, and math literacy educator. (1) Robert Parris Moses was born in Harlem, New York City, on January 23, 1935. ![]()
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