Musicians and mourners from New Orleans led a New Orleans-style jazz band parade, first somber and then joyous,  through the streets of Central Square in honor of civil rights leader and educator Bob Moses of Cambridge,  Sept. 25, 2021.  Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge figure, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida. The  Black Men of Labor  Social Aid and Pleasure Club from New Orleans led the procession. 

Janet Moses, the widow of civil rights leader Bob Moses, is led from St. Mary of the Annunciation Church following a memorial service, Sept. 25, 2021.  

Omo Moses, left, and his brother Taba Moses, join the New Orleans-based Black Men of Labor in a mournful procession for their father, Bob Moses, in Cambridge, Sept. 25, 2021.  Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge legend, education advocate and civil rights leader, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida. 

Todd Higgins of the New Orleans-based Black Men of Labor, a  Social Aid and Pleasure Club,  emerges from St. Mary of the Annunciation Church in Cambridge to start a New Orleans-style jazz funeral procession in celebration of civil rights leader Bob Moses of Cambridge, Sept. 25, 2021.

The New Orleans-based Hot 8 Brass Band march into St. Mary of the Annunciation Church in Cambridge during a memorial service for Cambridge's Bob Moses, Sept. 25, 2021.   

Kamara Moses, 6, looks at a painting of her grandfather, Bob Moses, as she and other grandchildren gather at the Moses family home on School Street in Cambridge during a procession from St. Mary of the Annunciation Church to Starlight Square, Sept. 25, 2021.  Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge legend, education advocate and civil rights leader, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida.

Big Al Huntley of the New Orleans-based Hot 8 Brass Band leads a  procession through the streets of Central Square in Cambridge in honor of Cambridge's Bob Moses, Sept. 25, 2021.   Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge legend and civil rights leader, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida.

Friends of the Robert Moses family dance in the streets of Central Square during a  New Orleans-style jazz band parade to the Starlight Lounge in Cambridge, Sept. 25, 2021.  Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge legend, education advocate and civil rights leader, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida.

Members of the Hot 8 Brass Band of New Orleans, Louisiana dance in the streets of Central Square in Cambridge during a funeral procession in celebration of civil rights leader Bob Moses of Cambridge, Sept. 25, 2021.   Moses, 86, a beloved  Cambridge legend, education advocate and civil rights leader, died July 25 in Hollywood, Florida.