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A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.

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Embed DAVID BIANCULLI, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. We're going to remember one of the pioneers of the civil rights movement, Bob Moses. He died Sunday at the age of 86. The quiet-spoken, self-effacing activist helped lead the effort in Mississippi to organize and register rural Black residents to vote. In 1960, after watching news footage of lunch counter sit-ins in the South, he left his job teaching math in New York City to help in the civil rights movement. When he arrived in Mississippi, he was one of only a few activists there. He joined the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Co...

Bob Moses, veteran of Southern civil rights movement, is dead at 86 Bob Moses, the civil rights activist best known for his determined struggle in the early 1960s to win the right to vote for African Americans in the Jim Crow South, died at his home in Florida on July 25 at the age of 86. His life and contributions exemplify both the achievements as well as the limitations of the 1960s mass movement for democratic rights, and against racial segregation. Though Moses’ name was not as well-known as those of Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders of that period, he was held in the highest re...

Bob Moses, Civil Rights Pioneer, Passes Away at 82 Known by peers and admirers alike as a gentle, yet firm presence, Bob Moses quickly established himself as a leader in both the Civil Rights and mathematics communities, with his partnership with The Young People’s Project and the founder of The Algebra Project. He exemplified what it meant to put the betterment of others first and uses his book knowledge to advance his own people across generations.  Moses answered the call to the Civil Rights movement in the early 1960s, leaving his teaching position in New York City to register the poor...