During the civil rights movement of the 1960s, there was no doubt which was the most violent, repressive Southern state. Mississippi was the keystone of white supremacy. Robert Moses, leader of the ...

Moses Wright's testimony in the trial of his great-nephew's accused killers would go down in history as one of the bravest moments of the Civil Rights Movement. Moses and his wife Elizabeth lived in a ...

Urban planner Robert Moses (1888-1981) was the unelected official who single-handedly reshaped New York City and its environs with his massive public works projects – highways, bridges, tunnels and ...

It’s important to remember that public opinion was quite different earlier when Moses was operating particularly in the earlier portion of his tenure. Caro covers this well in The Power Broker, ...