BOB MOSES CONFERENCE

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BOB MOSES
CONFERENCE

  • Already in its second year, the Bob Moses Conference is a speaker series spearheaded by Dr. Janet Jemmott Moses in partnership with leading universities. With the support of renowned scholars and activists, the Bob Moses Conference maintains a public dialogue around the ideas and questions Bob Moses posed to America, from our carceral system to educational inequity.

    2022 Inaugural Virtual Conference
    Total Registrants: 755

    2023 Hybrid Conference
    Total Registrants: 1,432

  • Imani Perry
    Nicholas Lemann
    Dean James D. Anderson
    Jarvis R. Givens
    Paul Parravano
    Danny Glover
    Dr. Cornel West
    Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    Mark Rosenbaum
    Douglas A. Blackmon
    Rahsaan Hall
    Kelly Lytle Hernandez
    Margaret A. Burnham
    A. Kirsten Mullen
    Desmond Meade
    Michelle Alexander
    William Darity Jr.
    James Forman
    Chesa Boudin
    Vince Warren
    Tasseli Mckay
    Rasul Mowatt
    Goodwin Liu
    Dr. James D. Anderson
    Ron Savage
    Lawrence Watson
    Benjamin Moynihan
    Maisha Moses
    Joan T. Wynne
    Rachel Williams-Giordano
    Adrian Walker

"THE NECESSARY INGREDIENT FOR THE GAINS BORN OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT OF THE 1960'S WAS THE ORGANIZATION OF PEOPLE UPON WHOSE SHOULDERS THE PROBLEM OF SECOND CLASS CITIZENSHIP RESTED. IN MISSISSIPPI, THOSE SHOULDERS BELONGED TO AMZIE MOORE, EW STEPTOE, FANNIE LOU HAMER, AILEEN QUINN, VICTORIA GRAY, HARTMAN TURNBOW AND HUNDREDS OF OTHERS WHOSE NAMES NEVER MADE IT INTO THE BIN OF HISTORY. ADVOCACY IS IMPORTANT, HOWEVER, NOT UNTIL DAY WORKERS AND SHARECROPPERS RISKED THEIR LIVES BY CLIMBING THE COURTHOUSE STEPS, OR STUDENTS DEFIED SOUTHERN LAW AND CUSTOM BY SITTING IN THE FRONT OF THE BUS WAS FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE POSSIBLE. WILLIE SUTTON, FEATURED AMONG THE FBI'S MOST WANTED LIST WAS ASKED WHY HE ROBBED BANKS. SUTTON REPORTEDLY ANSWERED, "THAT'S WHERE THE MONEY IS". THE BOB MOSES FUND FOR EDUCATION AND ORGANIZING INVESTS IN LOCAL LEADERSHIP, BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE ___________IS.

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