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Racial Justice Icons of 1960s civil rights movement voice cautious optimism "What we are experiencing now as a nation has only happened a couple times in our history." Bob Moses, on Feb. 5, 2014.

Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who was shot at and endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped impr… ...

Bob Moses says America is at "a lurching moment" for racial change, potentially as transforming as the Civil War era and as the 1960s civil rights movement that he helped lead.