Moses, Robert P(arris)

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MOSES, Robert P(arris)

MOSES, Robert P(arris). American, b. 1935. Genres: Education. Career: Civil rights leader and author. Horace Mann School, New York, NY, mathematics teacher, 1958-61; Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, MS, field secretary, 1961-65; Mississippi Council of Federated Organizations, director, 1962-65; Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, director, 1964; Ministry of Education, Tanzania, mathematics teacher, 1969-75; Martin L. King Elementary, Cambridge MA, algebra teacher, 1982-87. Publications: (with C.E. Cobb, Jr.) Radical Equations: Math Literacy and Civil Rights, 2001, as Radical Equations: Civil Rights from Mississippi to the Algebra Project, 2002. Address: c/o Beacon Press, 25 Beacon St., Boston, MA 02108, U.S.A.

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