1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Robert Parris Moses Congressional Gold Medal Act . 2. Findings The Congress finds that: (1) Robert Parris Moses was born in Harlem, New York City, on January 23, 1935. (2) Robert Parris Moses is regarded as an influential civil rights activist, peace activist, public education advocate, and math literacy educator. (3) Moses grew up in Harlem River Houses and was one of only a handful of Black students at the time who was admitted to Stuyvesant High School. (4) Moses earned a scholarship to Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and subsequently obtained a master’s degree in philosophy from Harvard University in 1957. (5) His doctorate studies in mathematics were halted due to the death of his mother and the hospitalization of his father. (6) In 1959, Moses helped with the second Youth March for Integrated Schools in Washington, DC. (7) Moses visited Mississippi in the summer of 1960, and met with local National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) leaders who indicated the need to focus on voter registration. He returned to Mississippi after teaching the 1960–1961 school year in New York, where he organized and registered thousands of poor, illiterate, and rural Black residents to vote. (8) As a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, in 1964, Moses helped organize the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project. (9) Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., called Moses’ contribution to the freedom struggle in America an inspiration . (10) After Moses married Janet, they started a family in Tanzania. He spent nearly a decade there teaching mathematics and working with the Ministry of Education. (11) Moses returned to the United States in 1976, and continued his doctoral studies in Philosophy of Mathematics at Harvard. He received a MacArthur Fellowship in 1982, which he used to promote the Algebra Project. (12) In founding the Algebra Project, Moses stated that K–12 math literacy, like voting literacy, is key to full citizenship for Americans from poor