Bob Moses was a pivotal organizer for the Civil Rights Movement as field secretary for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and was director of SNCC’s Mississippi Project.
Rita Bender is the widow of slain civil rights worker, Michael Schwerner, who was one of three CORE field workers killed in Philadelphia, Mississippi in 1964 by an alleged KKK leader in response to their civil-rights work.
Watch video of their Jan. 18, 2010, MLK Day keynote address, “The Deliberate Denial of Education.”
Read more about the 2010 MLK Commemorative Lecture Series.
Contact: Princine Lewis (615) 322-NEWS
princine.lewis@vanderbilt.edu