As an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the 1960s, Bob Moses traveled to the most dangerous parts of Mississippi to help African Americans end segregation and secure the right to vote. But it would be tutoring students in math 20 years later at his daughter’s racially mixed middle school in Massachusetts that would lead to his life’s work—The Algebra Project.
Hasan Kwame Jeffries
Hasan Kwame Jeffries is an associate professor of history at Ohio State University. He was born in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y. After graduating from Midwood High School in 1990, he headed south, enrolling at Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., the nation’s leading institution for educating African American men. Hasan has received several fellowships in support of his research, including a Ford Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship. He has also regularly shared his expert knowledge of African American history and contemporary Black politics with the general public through lectures, teacher workshops and frequent media appearances.