Civil-Rights Activist Uses Nonprofit to Teach Struggling Students Math

Bob Moses, a civil-rights activist who worked in Mississippi in the early 1960s, shares the idea behind his math nonprofit, the Algebra Project, writes NPR.

Started in 1982 with a MacArthur “Genuis Grant,” the Algebra Project enrolls students who score poorly on state math tests in additional math classes for four years so they will be better prepared for college.

“Education is still basically Jim Crow as far as the kids who are in the bottom economic strata of the country,” Moses says, the son of a janitor who went to Harvard. “No one knows about them, no one cares about them.”