RIP Bob Moses.
Such the warrior for civil rights.
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*so sad to see that this thread could not stay on topic of the life and times of Bob Moses.
A disgustingly sad example of just how cancerous that orange tinted manchild is, was and ALWAYS will be. damn.
I took a math class from him in High School. Later, I knew he’d gone to Mississippi and admired that enormously. His sense of purpose was palpable, even when teaching Peano’s mathematical logic.
I did not realize then that he was a great man and that I’d never meet another. And I have worked with many extraordinary people in academia.
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As I posted, I was 15 in 1964 and well aware of what was going on. I watched some of the training in Oxford, Ohio. And then went home to my farm 5 miles away where there were KKK members and other hard core racists in my tiny hamlet who knew me and knew my family and where our farm was. I had to be really careful at that time. Even today all these decades on those people I knew in my tiny hamlet (pop 450) are still around. History isn’t just in a book…something abstract. It’s sometimes up in your face.
Thank you for posting that video even if it did bring back some scary memories for me.
Racists are with us but in the end their attitude will lose. The country is more diverse thanks to people like Bob Moses. And it isn’t just White people in positions of power anymore. We need protections for voting.
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I was in Mississippi in 1964. We had a reunion in Jackson in 2014. Asked about what had changed, Bob Moses pointed out that there was no FBI office in Mississippi in 1964 but now there was.
As a young man, Moses had ears to hear the call.