Legendary civil rights activist Robert P. Moses is the winner of many awards including a MacArthur "genius"
award and a Heinz Award in the Human Condition. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Cobb, Charles E. Jr. :
Charles E. Cobb, Jr., a veteran of the civil rights movement and for thirty years a journalist for major magazines,
lives in Washington, D.C.
Review
"Robert Moses is the towering activist/intellectual of his generation--a grassroots freedom fighter of
quiet dignity and incredible determination for over forty years. He and Charles Cobb, Jr., have written the definitive
book on one of the most important projects of youth empowerment and citizenship of our times."
--Cornel West, author of Race Matters
"If Chapter 1 of Mr. Moses's Mississippi odyssey was about voting, Chapter 2 is about algebra. They merge
in . . . Radical Equations. ... The themes�equality, empowerment, citizenship�ripple through like ribbons, tying
the two experiences in the same long-term struggle."
--Jodi Wilgoren, The New York Times
"An almost legendary civil rights organizer in Mississippi during the 1960s, now blazing trails in education,
Bob Moses tells a powerful and compelling story."
--Julian Bond, chairman of the board, NAACP
Beacon Press Web Site, April, 2002
Summary
"Bob Moses . . . shows us why math literacy for all children is a key next step in the ongoing fight for
equal citizenship." �Marian Wright Edelman, president, Children's Defense Fund
Bob Moses's work to organize black voters in Mississippi famously transformed the political power of entire
communities. Nearly forty years later, Moses is organizing again, this time as teacher and founder of the national
math literacy program called the Algebra Project.
Moses argues for a crisis in math literacy in poor communities as urgent as the crisis of political access in Mississippi
in 1961. Through personal narrative and impassioned argument, he shows the lessons of the civil rights movement
at work in a remarkable educational movement today.
