He wants to make the American dream possible for everyone, not just those with a long-standing historical advantage. At that time, Robinson became known for participating in a sit-in at the South African embassy to call for Nelson Mandela’s release from prison. Randall Robinsons book of nonfiction, The Debt: What America Owes to Blacks (Dutton, 2000), is about remembering. In the 1970s and 1980s, Robinson took his work to Washington DC, where he founded the lobbying and research organization TransAfrica to influence US foreign policy toward apartheid - South Africa’s period of legislated segregation. They marred an otherwise unremarkable Southern childhood and, with the long-running effluvium of US attitudes and policies toward the Black nations of the world, preselected my adult career in global human rights advocacy,” Robinson wrote in his 1998 book “Defending the Spirit: A Black Life in America.” Or, more accurately, White Americans have made me this way. For Robinson, those early years were the catalyst of a life dedicated to political activism and his fervent passion to speak up against racism. He graduated from Harvard Law School and became a civil rights attorney in Boston. Born in Richmond, Virginia, in 1941, Robinson grew up experiencing racial discrimination and attended segregated schools.
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