Bob Moses (activist)

Moses went to Mississippi for SNCC in 1961 and spent years doing slow, dangerous door-to-door voter registration work in counties where Black residents were systematically kept off the rolls. He conceived the 1964 Freedom Summer, which brought around a thousand mostly white volunteers to the state and drew national attention after three workers were murdered, and the Freedom Vote mock elections that proved Black Mississippians wanted to vote. That pressure fed directly into the Voting Rights Act of 1965.