Robert Parris Moses, civil rights activist, dies aged 86

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Moses was beaten and jailed in Mississippi in mid-1960s before a ‘second chapter’ saw the foundation of the Algebra Project in 1982

As Mississippi field director for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee , Moses was central to the 1964 “Freedom Summer” in which hundreds of students went south to register voters.

 

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