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Robert Moses (December 18, 1888 – July 29, 1981) was an American urban planner and public official who worked in the New York metropolitan area during the early to mid-20th century. Moses is regarded as one of the most powerful and influential people in the history of New York City and New York State.
Jul 9, 2017 · Did Robert Moses build low bridges on the Southern State Parkway to keep buses and minorities away from Jones Beach? The story is more complex than that, involving politics, history, and aesthetics. Learn how Moses shaped New York's parks, highways, and public works with his vision and power.
May 25, 2024 · Robert Moses (born Dec. 18, 1888, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died July 29, 1981, West Islip, N.Y.) was a U.S. state and municipal official whose career in public works planning resulted in a virtual transformation of the New York landscape.
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Mar 25, 2022 · F OR ALMOST half a century, from the 1920s to the 1960s, Robert Moses shaped the infrastructure of New York. Brilliant and devious, a charmer but also a bully, he pretended to be a modest...
Jul 12, 1975 · One of the Modern Library’s hundred greatest books of the twentieth century, Robert Caro's monumental book makes public what few outsiders knew: that Robert Moses was the single most powerful man of his time in the City and in the State of New York.
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Jul 25, 2021 · Bob Moses, a soft-spoken pioneer of the civil rights movement who faced relentless intimidation and brutal violence to register Black voters in Mississippi in the 1960s, and who...
Jul 25, 2021 · Robert Parris Moses, a United States civil rights activist who endured beatings and jail while leading Black voter registration drives in the American South during the 1960s and later helped ...
