Post by: AngelOfThyNight on July 29, 2021, 12:24:36 PM
Robert Parris Moses, who passed away this week at the age of 86, is the most important civil rights activist most Americans have never heard of. He died on what would have been the 80th birthday of Emmett Till, the Black boy lynched in 1955 whose open-casket funeral put the violence that defined Jim Crow Mississippi on national display.
Source: The Moses of our time (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/oO5_6R4dmEs/index.html)