DN remembers the life of Bob Moses, the civil rights leader who left his job as a New York City high school teacher to register Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, facing down horrific violence and intimidation to become one of the icons of the movement.

He died Sunday at age 86. Moses spent his later years as an advocate for improved math education, teaching thousands of students across the United States through the Algebra Project, the nonprofit he founded.

Moses spoke to Democracy Now! in 2009, on the first day of the Obama presidency, recalling the 1964 fight for Black representation within the Democratic Party, the struggle against Jim Crow in the South and his passion for education.

“In our country, I think we run sharecropper education,” Moses said, warning that unequal educational opportunities would continue racial disparities in the country.

“We need a constitutional amendment, something which simply says every child in the country is a child of the country and is entitled to a quality public school education.”

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