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Moses is the subject of a critical song by NYHC band Sick of It All entitled "Robert Moses was a racist", included on their 2018 album Wake the sleeping dragon!. [75] The band Bob Moses is named after Robert Moses. [76] A fictionalized version of Moses is the main villain of The Unsleeping City, the third season of the web series Dimension 20. [77]
Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York is a 1974 biography of Robert Moses by Robert Caro.The book focuses on the creation and use of power in New York local and state politics, as witnessed through Moses's use of unelected positions to design and implement dozens of highways and bridges, sometimes at great cost to the communities he nominally served.
Robert Parris Moses, a civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading black voter registration drives in the... View Article The post 1960s civil rights activist Robert Moses ...
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Redevelopment projects initiated by Robert Moses (1888-1981) — a controversial 20th century public official & urban planner of New York City Subcategories ...
Straight Line Crazy by David Hare, starring Ralph Fiennes as the controversial planner, asks who best to shape a city. It opens on October 18 at the Shed in NYC
It was alleged by Robert Caro, author of the Moses biography The Power Broker, that this was done intentionally to prevent poor and minority people from accessing the beach by public bus. [15] Even for earlier-built parkways in Westchester County that Moses used as inspiration, clearances are on average higher than on the Southern State.