H.R. 6712 authorizes the posthumous award of a Congressional Gold Medal to Robert Parris Moses, a pioneering civil rights activist and education advocate who passed away in 2021. The bill recognizes Moses's decades of work advancing voting rights during the civil rights movement, particularly through his leadership of the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project in 1964, as well as his later founding of the Algebra Project in 1982, which has helped over 40,000 students from marginalized communities develop math literacy skills. The gold medal will be designed and struck by the Secretary of the Treasury, with the original presented to Moses's daughter Maisha Moses, while the Treasury is authorized to produce and sell bronze duplicate medals to recover costs. The bill requires no specific new funding—costs will be covered through the U.S. Mint Public Enterprise Fund, with proceeds from bronze medal sales returned to that fund. This legislation honors Moses's belief that math literacy, like voting rights, is essential to full citizenship and economic opportunity for poor and minority communities.
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