Bob Moses was born on 23 January 1935 in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA. He was an executive. He was married to Janet Jemmott and Dona Richards. He died on 25 July 2021 in Hollywood, Florida, USA.
He earned a master's degree in philosophy at Harvard, and taught math at the prestigious Horace Mann private school. He subsequently joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and worked on African American voter registration drives in Mississippi.