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Title: Bob Moses as a Facilitator
Review: This biography of Bob Moses coincides well with my personal interviews of him as a planner and facilitator in encouraging local Mississippians in their quest to overcome their oppression at the hands of official and unofficial Mississippi. He not only led by example, he brought out the leadership qualities of poor, rural and illiterate Mississippians who then led themselves in fighting Mississippi's "closed society." He worked at the invitation of the movement leaders of the 1950's --Amzie Moore, C.C. Bryant, Webb Owens, and E.W. Steptoe-- and established an important link between the older civil rights movement in the state with the student movement of SNCC, CORE , and COFO. Decisions made concerning the Freedom Summer project are to be found in this well written biography of him as a facilitator of the Mississippi movement.
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