Robert Russa Moton's Forgotten Hero

Robert Russa Moton is a forgotten hero. He devoted his entire adult life to improving educational opportunities for African Americans and he also launched movements for racial equality and interracial cooperation. However, no students today knew his name or his achievements. He was an excellent and distinguished American educator and an advisor to several presidents and he consistently opposed discrimination against minorities in the U.S., but he has been forgotten by the society. He had a happy childhood with his relatives’ love and support. His grandparents instilled in him a love for Ponca language, history, and culture. When he was a lad, he was sent to an Indian boarding school where he began to learn English. Years later, he gradually forgot his own language. Boarding school life introduced him to the pan-Indian
He did not participate in the Red Power movement but served his country by joining the Vietnam War. After the war, he settled in San Francisco. Unemployed Haines decided to participate in the American Indian Movement, spreading the ideas and strategies. The takeover of Alcatraz galvanized Haines to take action. He was concerned about the plight of American Indians. As an experienced veteran, he often helped to arrange security for particular demonstrations and engagements. Haines had taken part in some significant civil rights struggles, such as the Long Walk II, The Trail of Broken Treaties, the takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs building, and the efforts to protect fishing rights. After years’ fighting for equality, personal demons about wars still haunted him. He wanted to improve himself and learned more about his culture and native spirituality. He had made lots of efforts to achieve racial equality, but people today could not find information about him in books or on the Internet. He was forgotten by the