Date uploaded: 2021-07-25 20:45:31
Robert 'Bob' Parris Moses, the architect of Mississippi's Freedom Summer and a famed leader of the civil rights movement, died Sunday at 86.
Moses became a principal organizer of the Freedom Summer project in 1964 when hundreds of northern college students joined with local Black Mississippians to register African American voters and promote civil rights throughout the state. The Freedom Summer is notoriously linked to the Mississippi Burning murders of three civil rights activists who were working to register voters in Neshoba County.
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📸: Rogelio V. Solis, @apnews
