Visser-Maessen, Laura,

Robert Parris Moses a life in civil rights and leadership at the grassroots / [electronic resource] : Laura Visser-Maessen. - Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The making of a mind -- A movement education -- You killed my husband -- The Bob Moses mystique -- A new dimension -- Damned if you, damned if you don't -- Freedom is a constant struggle -- A moment lost -- Not a happy time.

"This new biography casts Moses in a new light, revealing him as a far more strategic, calculating, and hands-on organizer than in previous portrayals of him as an idealist and saintly figure"--

9781469628004 1469628007




Moses, Robert Parris.


Civil rights movements--History--Mississippi--20th century.
African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi.
African Americans--Mississippi--Biography.
Civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.
African American civil rights workers--Mississippi--Biography.


Mississippi--Race relations.


Electronic books.

E185.97.M89 / V57 2016

323.092 B