Community-based voter registration projects followed sit-ins and freedom rides. Sit-ins fired up young people, and the joining of two generations energized the Mississippi Movement. SCLC volunteer Bob Moses came to the Delta in 1960 to recruit activists for SNCC’s fall conference. In Cleveland, he met Amzie Moore, who introduced Moses to the state and its people. Moore had grown frustrated with slow-moving legal challenges and saw the student movement as a chance for real progress on voter registration.
Pictured: A black and white photograph of Bob Moses in the Jackson COFO office. Moses is at the center of the photograph, slightly out of focus and looking down. Around him are stacks of papers, binders, and filing cabinets.
Credit: Wisconsin Historical Society WHS-72663
