BOB MOSES CONFERENCE
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BOB MOSES
CONFERENCE
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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: 7552023 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.
