Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Alice Walker and Civil Rights Leader Bob Moses Reflect on an Obama Presidency and the Struggle

by via Democracy Now

Tue, Jan 20, 2009 6:50PM

Tuesday, January 20, 2009 :Bob Moses is one of the leading civil rights icons from the 1960s. He was the former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC. The New York Times once wrote, "In Mississippi, Bob Moses was the equivalent of Martin Luther King." Moses is also the founder of the Algebra Project, a foundation devoted to improving minority education in math. The author, poet and activist Alice Walker won the 1983 Pulitzer for her book The Color Purple. She has written many other bestselling books, including In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens and Possessing the Secret of Joy.

Guests:

Bob Moses, civil rights leader. He was the former field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He is also the founder of the Algebra Project, a foundation devoted to improving minority education in math.

Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and activist. In 1983 she won the Pulitzer Prize for her book The Color Purple. She has written many other bestselling books, including In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens and Possessing the Secret of Joy. Her most recent is We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness.

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