Person · 1935–2021
Bob Moses
The quiet SNCC strategist who built Mississippi voter registration and directed Freedom Summer.
A strategist of [[disenfranchisement|the fight for the vote]].
A New York teacher who went South, Bob Moses organized the most dangerous voter-registration work in the Mississippi Delta, conceived Freedom Summer (1964), and helped found the MFDP — then spent his later life teaching math as a civil right.
On the timeline
- June 21, 1964Freedom Summer
Volunteers register Black voters in Mississippi; three are murdered by the Klan.
- August 22, 1964The MFDP challenge at Atlantic City
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenges the all-white delegation at the Democratic convention; Fannie Lou Hamer's testimony electrifies the country.