Moses, Robert Parris
- Authoritative Name:
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Biography:
- During the late 1950s Moses became increasingly interested in the civil rights struggle. In 1959 he helped Bayard Rustin with the second Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, D.C. Although he was willing to stuff envelopes along with other office volunteers, Rustin encouraged him to do more, suggesting in 1960 that he use his summer teaching break to go to Atlanta and work with King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). In Atlanta, Moses volunteered to travel on behalf of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Council (SNCC)--then a nascent student organization sharing offices with SCLC--on a recruiting tour of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi, where he met local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) activist Amzie Moore. At Moore's request, Moses returned to Mississippi in 1961 to work on voter registration. Initially just a volunteer, Moses quickly joined SNCC's staff of three as the special field secretary for voter registration based in McComb, Mississippi. The following year he was named the co-director of the Council of Federated Organizations, a cooperative of civil rights groups in the state...Moses developed the idea for the 1964 Mississippi Freedom Summer Project, which recruited northern college students to join Mississippi blacks conducting a grassroots voter registration drive. When local blacks were excluded from participating in the all-white regular" Democratic Party, Moses suggested creating the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party (MFDP), which sought recognition as the representative delegation from Mississippi at the Democratic National Convention of 1964...Moses resigned from COFO in late 1964."--"Moses, Robert Parris Moses (1935-)," King Encyclopedia, retrieved March 17, 2008.
- Associated Subjects:
- Moses, Robert Parris
Moses, Robert Parris--Correspondence - Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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243 items in 6 collections (expand all)
Interview with Anne Braden, March 8 and 9, 1989
- Creator:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Date of Original:
- 1989-03-08/1989-03-09
- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
Interview with Anne Braden, November 10, 1994
- Creator:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Date of Original:
- 1994-11-10
- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
Interview with Constance Curry, August 8, 1997
- Creator:
- Curry, Constance, 1933-
- Date of Original:
- 1997-08-08
- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
Interview with Julian Bond, September 14, 1997
- Creator:
- Bond, Julian, 1940-
- Date of Original:
- 1997-09-14
- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
Interview with Robert Zellner, November 3, 1990
- Creator:
- Zellner, Bob
- Date of Original:
- 1990-11-03
- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
Oral history interview with Helen O'Neal McCray (1), 2001
- Creator:
- O'Neal, Helen Jean, 1941-
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Collection:
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
Oral history interview with Helen O'Neal McCray (2), 2001
- Creator:
- O'Neal, Helen Jean, 1941-
- Date of Original:
- 2001
- Collection:
- Freedom Riders' 40th Anniversary Oral History Project, 2001
- Contributing Institution:
- John Davis Williams Library. Department of Archives and Special Collections
Allen--Freedom School mimeo materials 1963-64 (Pamela P. Allen papers, 1967-1974; Archives Main Stacks, M85-013, Folder 1)
- Creator:
- Allen, Pamela, P., 1943-
- Date of Original:
- 1967/1974
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Baker--Ella Baker papers, 1959-1965; Archives Main Stacks, SC 628
- Creator:
- Baker, Ella, 1903-1986
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1966
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Becker--Mississippi Freedom Summer Project - General papers, 1964-1965 (Norma Becker papers, 1961-1975; Historical Society Library Microforms Room, Micro 817, Reel 1)
- Creator:
- Becker, Norma
- Date of Original:
- 1964/1965
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Beech-- Council of Federated Organizations, 1964-1966 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 4, Folder 5)
- Creator:
- Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
- Date of Original:
- 1963/1965
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, August 20-December, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 7)
- Creator:
- Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
- Date of Original:
- 1964/1965
- Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Beech--Ministers' Project volunteers' reports, February-August 19, 1964 (Robert Beech Papers, 1963-1972; Archives Main Stacks, Mss 945, Box 6, Folder 6)
- Creator:
- Beech, Robert, 1935-2008
- Date of Original:
- 1964-02
1964-03
1964-04
1964-05
1964-06
1964-07
1964-08 - Collection:
- Freedom Summer Digital Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
Letter: Atlanta, Georgia, to James A. Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962 June 5
- Creator:
- Moses, Robert Parris
- Date of Original:
- 1962-06-05
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Letter: Atlanta, Georgia, to Mrs. Edgar B. Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1962 June 21
- Creator:
- Branton, Wiley Austin, 1923-
- Date of Original:
- 1962-06-21
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Letter: to Jim Dombrowski, 1963 February 13
- Creator:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Date of Original:
- 1963-02-13
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report]
- Creator:
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Date of Original:
- 1962-07-23
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report]
- Creator:
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Date of Original:
- 1962-07-23
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a page of typewritten notes taken during an executive committee meeting of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, 1960s
- Creator:
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1969
- Collection:
- Sovereignty Commission Online
- Contributing Institution:
- Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
WSB-TV newsfilm clip of a press conference with Bob Moses and James Forman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee about the upcoming Mississippi Freedom Summer, 1964
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1964
- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
Amzie Moore, Julian Bond, and others
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1969
- Collection:
- Wisconsin Historical Images
- Contributing Institution:
- Wisconsin Historical Society
- Educator Resources:
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3 items in 3 collections (expand all)
SNCC 1960-1966 : Six years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Date of Original:
- 1960/1966
- Collection:
- SNCC 1960-1966 : Six Years of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert Moses
- Date of Original:
- 1935/1965
- Collection:
- Teachers' Domain Civil Rights Special Collection
- Contributing Institution:
- WGBH Educational Foundation
Veterans of Hope Project
- Date of Original:
- 1990/9999
- Collection:
- Veterans of Hope Project
- Contributing Institution:
- Veterans of Hope Project