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Bob Moses to Speak On Situation in Miss.

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Bob Moses, who was head of this summer's Mississippi Project, will speak at 8 p.m. tonight in the First Congregational Church in Cambridge.

Moses was born in New York City, received an M.A. in philosophy at Harvard in 1957, and taught mathematics at the Horace Mann School in New York. He first went to Mississippi in 1961, as a Field Secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee.

At present Moses is director of the Council of Federated Organizations, the civil rights group which brought hundreds of college students into Mississippi this summer. He has played a leading role in the formation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.

During the four years Moses has been in Mississippi he has been beaten and jailed many times. In 1962 the car he was riding in was splattered with machine gun bullets.

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