The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Robert Parris Moses

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Robert Parris Moses

11/16/2018; 11/18/2018

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2018.215

Civic leader and educator Robert Parris Moses (1935 - ) served as co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and was the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and founded the Algebra Project. Moses was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 11/16/2018 and 11/18/2018, in Boston, Massachusetts. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 2; Total Tapes: 13; Total Run Time: 06h 19m 12s

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Moses, Robert Parris, 1935-2021

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Civic leader and educator Robert Parris Moses was born on January 23, 1935 in New York City to Louise Parris and Gregory Moses. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1952, and enrolled at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, where he received a Rhodes scholarship. Moses received his B.A. degree from Hamilton College in 1956, and his M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1957. Moses began teaching mathematics at the Horace Mann School in the Bronx, New York in 1958. In 1960, he became...