He joined the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and worked with the SNCC. The violence he saw directed toward civil rights activists, which was increasing in intensity, led him to quit his teaching post and devote himself full time to the voter registration work. Ultimately he garnered enough support to keep the students working until December. Moses learned while doing he traveled around to local community leaders in McComb looking for people willing to support ten students who would work full time for one month on voter registration.
Robert Parris Moses (Taken on 26 February 2014, by Miller Center used under Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0), ). Moses said, “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.” Moses returned to Mississippi in summer 1961, and worked to set up a voter registration drive in McComb, Mississippi. He met Amzie Moore, a native Mississippian, while there, and Moses and Moore planned a voter registration drive for Mississippi. In July 1960, Moses traveled south with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) to organize attendees for their second conference that coming October in Atlanta. He then started teaching mathematics to middle school students at Horace Mann School during this time he grew more interested in civil rights activism. Bob Moses, a native of New York City, graduated from Harvard with an MA in philosophy in 1957, and was working on a PhD when he had to return home to care for family.
Last Sunday, July 25, a key figure in the history of voting rights and civil rights activism passed away – Robert (Bob) Parris Moses.
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