Ep. 263 Bob Moses, Civil Rights Activist/Educator

Sep 1, 2021

Drew Perkins talks with historian Stewart Burns about the life and legacy of educator and civil rights leader Bob Moses.

Links & Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

• Union Institute and University
• Institute for Social Justice (TISJ) at Union Institute & University
• Algebra Project
• Young People’s Project (extension of Algebra Project, led by its student alums)
• Laura Visser-Maessen, Robert Parris Moses (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2016)
• Barbara Ransby: Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Univ. of North Carolina Press, 2003)
• Charles M. Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom: The Organizing Tradition and the Mississippi Freedom Struggle (Univ. of California Press, 1997)
• Robert P. Moses and Charles E. Cobb Jr., Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project (Beacon Press, 2001)
• Robert P. Moses et al, Quality Education as a Constitutional Right: Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
  (Beacon Press, 2010)
• Stewart Burns, To the Mountaintop (bio of MLK, 2004, 2018), winner of Wilbur Award (first published by HarperCollins in 2004)

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