Charlie Cobb, who was also in SNCC, helped Moses write his 2001 book, “Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights.” “Bob believed that to make systemic change, you needed a ...

In the eighth grade, the math proficiency of The Algebra Project cohort was 17%. By the 10th grade, that number had risen to 82%. Ella Baker was fond of saying, “Give light and people will find the ...

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Now math literacy holds the key.” Bob Moses, a towering but self-effacing leader of the civil rights movement who, after enduring beatings and jailings to register Black voters in Mississippi in ...

Bob Zellner ... It wasn’t just math for math’s sake, however. “In today’s world, economic access and full citizenship depend crucially on math and science literacy,” Moses wrote in ...

Bob Moses is 78 ... The son of a janitor, Moses was born and raised in Harlem. He's a Harvard-trained philosopher and a veteran teacher. He started a math training program — the Algebra Project ...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris each offered statements of tribute to Moses’ heroic activism. And with good reason. Bob Moses came ... his job teaching math at Horace ...

Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure the right to vote. But it would be tutoring students in math 20 years later at ...

By Michael Levenson Clay Risen and Eduardo Medina Bob ... math as a means to a more equal society, died on Sunday at his home in Hollywood, Fla. He was 86. His daughter Maisha Moses confirmed ...

Bob Moses, a towering but self-effacing leader ... The project has instructed thousands of middle-school students in what Moses called “math literacy” as a crucial stepping stone to college ...

One giant of the civil rights movement who pulled off this feat was the philosopher-turned-organizer-turned-educator Robert Parris Moses, who died in July at age 86. Who was Bob Moses? His name ...