Robinson also attended a court hearing for some of those arrested for marching and that experience, at 11 years old, is why he ultimately became a criminal defense lawyer. He marched with his father and brother in one of the Memphis Sanitation Worker strikes. was murdered in Robinson’s hometown of Memphis, Tennessee. Robinson was 11 years old when the Reverend Dr. In 2011, Robinson began raising his then 13-year-old nephew and, as a Black man raising a Black son, struggled with what to tell his son about racism in America. He went to Marquette University and Harvard Law School and has been a trial lawyer for over 40 years.
Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism in America is a documentary feature film that confronts this history head on.įormer ACLU Deputy Legal Director Jeffery Robinson had one of the best educations in America.
The shocking murder of George Floyd and the ensuing swell of protests across this country have forced a reckoning, not just with police brutality against Black Americans, but with the painful history of slavery and anti-Black racism in America.
