Bob Moses |
Bob Moses, an admired leader in the 1960s civil rights movement and founder of the math literacy program the Algebra Project, will join in a conversation with Dean Nicholas Lemann at the Graduate School of Journalism on Thursday, Nov. 30 at 7:00 p.m. The event, which is part of the journalism school's weeklong conference on "The Status of Boys: Crisis or Not?," is open to the public and will be held at the school's Lecture Hall on the third floor of the Journalism Building. A reception will follow in the World Room.
Moses will introduce a scholarship being established at the journalism school by David Goodman in memory of his brother, Andrew Goodman who -- along with James Chaney and Michael Schwerner – was one of the three young civil rights activists murdered in Philadelphia, Miss. in 1964. The scholarship will benefit a journalism student interested in civil rights and social justice reporting.
Born in Harlem, Moses served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and then as director of SNCC's Mississippi Project where he helped organize the historic Freedom Riders. He was a driving force behind the 1964 Summer Project and in organizing the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which challenged the Mississippi regulars at the 1964 Democratic Convention. Pulitzer Prize-winner Taylor Branch wrote that Moses' early solo missions into rural southwest Mississippi to help register black voters made him an "object of wonder" in the civil rights movement for his courage and unshakable determination to be treated as an equal in the face of repeated arrests, beatings and threats to his life.
Noted as one of America's Best Leaders in the October, 2006 issue of U.S. News & World Report, Moses is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the Heinz Award for the Human Condition and the Nation/Puffin Prize for Creative Citizenship.
A MacArthur Fellow from 1982 to 1987, Moses used his fellowship to develop the Algebra Project, rooted in the belief that mathematics literacy in today's information age is as important to educational access and citizenship for inner city and rural poor students as the right to vote was for southern sharecroppers and day laborers in the 60s. As president and founder of the Cambridge, Mass.-based group, Moses has extended his pioneering leadership on civil rights and social justice to the cause of education reform and excellence for every child.
For more information about this event, please contact Arlene Morgan at am494@columbia.edu or Jodi Lipper at jbl2104@columbia.edu.
Related Links:
Journalism Conference: The Status of Boys: Crisis or Not
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/boys/agenda.asp
Graduate School of Journalism
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/
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