Bob Moore and Dayvon Love – How American Civil Rights Have Failed the American People Story Transcript SHARMINI PERIES, TRNN PRODUCER: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Sharmini Peries, coming to you from Baltimore. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was enacted on July 2, 50 years ago today. It is a landmark piece […]
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Bob Moore retired from 1199 SEIU United Healthcare Workers on May 30th, 2014, after serving nearly 45 years as an organizer, and officer in the MD-DC Division formerly known as 1199E-DC. He also served as an international vice president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) from 1990 to 2008. Bob joined Local 1199's Baltimore organizing in 1969. Prior to becoming an organizer for the union, he served as the Maryland Director of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) during the period just before the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. In 1964 he was one of the founding organizers of the community organization known as the Union for Jobs or Income Now (U-JOIN), which was a project of Students for a Democratic Society.