Born and educated in New York State, Robert Moses came to Mississippi in the early 1960s to work on voter registration for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He helped win black people the vote. From 1969 to 1975 he worked for the ministry of education in Tanzania. Today the disenfranchised are still his mission, and his tool is mathematics. Since its inception in 1982, his Algebra Project has involved more than 40,000 schoolchildren in 28 urban and rural school districts. He is author of Radical Equations: Math literacy and civil rights (Beacon, 2001).
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