● Robert Moses: Robert Parris Moses was born January 31, 1935 in Harlem, New York. He grew to be a civil rights activist and leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee fighting for voter registration and education in Mississippi. Moses also created the Algebra Project in 1982 to help Black students succeed in math. To this day, he’s received numerous awards for his efforts and continues to teach math in Miami, Florida and Jackson, Mississippi.