Few historic episodes in American history have imparted a more potent plea for social justice and inclusion than the civil rights movement in the 1950s and 1960s. In the past two decades, legendary activist Bob Moses has channeled the best of the civil rights tradition into a campaign of school reform and curriculum development with the nationally acclaimed Algebra Project. Yet for all the national recognition it has attained and its deep roots in the civil rights movement, the Algebra Project has only recently secured a formal affiliation with a major university. Earlier this year, the project, which has been based in Cambridge, Mass., gained an academic home at the Center for Urban Education and Innovation at Florida international University (FIU) in Miami, and made Moses an eminent scholar at the center.