Robbie Robinson paid the price for Savannah desegregation | savannahnow.com

Robert Edward “Robbie” Robinson entered all-white Savannah High on Sept. 3, 1963, one of 12 black seniors to take that step.

He would graduate the following spring and go on to become a lawyer and Savannah alderman before a mail bomb tore through his Abercorn Street law office on Dec. 18, 1989, killing him.

He was 42.

At least five of the 19 who crossed the racial lines at Savannah and Groves high schools in 1963 have since died, but none paid a greater price than Robinson.

Savannah attorney Sage Brown had known Robinson since the second grade and remembered him as a quiet, studious person who became consumed with the Civil Rights Movement for the rest of his life.

“Robbie never grew past the Civil Rights Movement,” Brown said, noting that Robinson was general counsel to the NAACP until his death.

“When you go through something like this, it changes you. It becomes a part of you.”

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