
Cleveland Robinson, Civil Rights

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Cleveland Robinson, Civil Rights
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Robinson, standing on second floor balcony of the National Headquarters of the March on Washington in Harlem. Cleveland Lowellyn Robinson (December 12, 1914 - August 23, 1995) was an Jamaican-American labor organizer, and civil rights activist. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1944 and took a job in a Manhattan dry goods store and very soon became active in District 65. He was elected vice-president and later became secretary-treasurer. He was the chairman and one of the key organizers of the August 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. In 1971, he helped to found the council of Black Trade Unionists, successor organization to the NALC, and served as its first vice-president. Orlando Fernandez, 1963.
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