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NEW: President Biden says Congress should honor Bob Moses by passing a new voting rights act "to continue his unfinished work."

Bob Moses worked to register Black voters in Jim Crow Mississippi & was the architect of Freedom Summer 1964. He died Sunday. mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

“From the polling stations of Mississippi and in classrooms of our nation, Bob always showed up and never, ever gave in.

“In his memory, let us continue his unfinished work," says @POTUS.

Voting rights bills are stuck in the Senate due to the filibuster. mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

"With attacks on the right to vote unseen since the days of the Jim Crow system Bob helped to dismantle, I call on Congress again to pass the For The People Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act," says @POTUS.
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"The violent and murderous response to the Freedom Summer (Bob Moses) organized helped galvanize support for the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965. A celebrated educator by training and by heart, he understood education is a great equalizer..." @POTUS mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

VP Kamala Harris: "Throughout his life, Mr. Moses continued to teach and organize. He saw a nexus between mathematics literacy and economic empowerment, and he founded the Algebra Project to expand both knowledge and opportunity to underserved students." mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

“My condolences to the Moses family and to all who knew and loved him. Let us honor his memory by continuing the fight for justice, for equality and for the right to vote.”
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"Throughout his life, Bob Moses bent the arc of the moral universe towards justice. He was a strategist at the core of the voting rights movement and beyond. ... May his light continue to guide us as we face another wave of Jim Crow laws.”
—@DerrickNAACP mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

“I was taught about the denial of the right to vote behind the Iron Curtain in Europe; I never knew that there was denial of the right to vote behind a Cotton Curtain here in the United States."
—Bob Moses, who left his home in NY to organize in MS in 1961 mississippifreepress.org/14111/continue…

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