#IDedicateThisWeekTo Bob Moses, American educator & civil rights activist,known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee on voter education ®istration in MS during the Civil Rights Movement &his co-founding of the MS Freedom Democratic Party. 
Well, I don't think that the Democratic Party to this day has confronted the issue of bringing into its ranks the kind of people that were represented by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. That is the real underclass of this country.
Bob Moses
Bob Moses
When you’re in Mississippi, the rest of America doesn’t seem real and when you’re out in the rest of America, Mississippi doesn’t seem real.
Bob Moses
Bob Moses
..we earned that by getting knocked down and standing back up. You couldn’t earn that by talking, right? When we got knocked down enough and stood back up enough times, I think they thought we were serious. So we earned their participation.
Bob Moses
Bob Moses
‘‘Leadership is there in the people,’’ he said. ‘‘You don’t have to worry about where your leaders are, how are we going to get some leaders. . . If you go out and work with your people, then the leadership will emerge.”
Bob Moses
Bob Moses
Bob Moses
What Moses learned from the early years in McComb would influence SNCC’s later activism in other parts of Mississippi, Southwest Georgia, Alabama, and Moses’s own Algebra Project, which stretched well into the twenty-first century.
What Moses learned from the early years in McComb would influence SNCC’s later activism in other parts of Mississippi, Southwest Georgia, Alabama, and Moses’s own Algebra Project, which stretched well into the twenty-first century.
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