Looking Forward to the Year 2000

Moses was a leader in the Civil Rights struggle, helping to register black voters in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964. He's still a civil rights activist, though his weapon now is math. He's the director and creator of the innovative Algebra Project which opens up educational opportunities for young African-Americans. Moses established the project in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1982. Since then it's been implimented across the country, and has reached 9,000 inner city youths.

Wilson won the Pulitzer Prize for his play, "Talley's Folly." His most recent play, "Redwood Curtain," is the story of an Amerasian girl in the Pacific Northwest, looking for her father, a Vietnam Vet.