Organizing And Math Literacy For Black Students – Bob Moses Played Critical Role In Civil Rights
Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Ohio State University
As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, 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 his daughter’s racially mixed middle school in Massachusetts that would lead to his life’s work – The Algebra Project.
The Algebra Project is a nonprofit dedicated to helping students from historically marginalized communities develop math literacy, which is an individual’s ability to formulate, employ and interpret mathematics in a variety of contexts. Moses founded it in 1982.
After researching Moses’ role in the civil rights movement for my book – “Bloody Lowndes:...