From Slavery to Civil Rights: Impressions on Educational Inequality

Robert Moses, an organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the lead strategist behind Freedom Summer, founder and president of the Algebra Project, was a keynote speaker at Pursuing Human Dignity, a conference sponsored by Facing History and Ourselves and Harvard Law School. In this excerpt, he reflects on the history of educational disenfranchisement of African Americans and considers how historical discrimination informs education today.