Robert P. Moses is one of the leading civil rights icons from the 1960s. He was the former field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and the main organizer of the Freedom Summer project, which was intended to end racial disfranchisement.

In this interview, Robert Moses discusses the Mississippi freedom movement of the 1960s with NYU historian Robert Cohen. The interview was done on May 5, 2011 at NYU.

He shows how the African American struggle for political rights and inclusion in the 1960s is connected to the work that the Algebra Project is doing today in the struggle for educational rights and math literacy.