Bob Moses

Robert “Bob” Moses joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960. In 1964, he became co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO), a cohort of major groups like the SNCC, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). His role as co-director of COFO and field secretary of SNCC led him to his position as director of the Freedom Summer Project, which trained volunteers in Oxford, OH. Although Moses resigned from COFO in late 1964, he resumed his role as an activist in the 1980s as the founder of the Algebra Project, a program which funds math education for low-income and minority students.