Jimmy Robinson
*Jimmy Robinson was born on February 1, 1918. He was a white-American activist, pacifist, and founding member of CORE.
James Russell Robinson was born in Rochester, New York, and grew up in Wyoming, New York. He received a B.A. (1939) from Columbia University and an M.A. (1942) from the University of Chicago. As a graduate student, Robinson co-founded the Chicago Committee of Racial Equality, CORE's forerunner. A lifelong pacifist and a civil rights activist, from 1945 until 1947, Robinson fulfilled his conscientious objector obligation during World War II by working in civilian public service camps in Tennessee and Colorado.
Robinson was CORE's executive secretary (1957–1960) and membership secretary (1961) before becoming a fundraiser for the American Committee on Africa (1961–1964) and the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund (1964–1993). Jimmy Robinson, 98, formerly of Manhattan, died September 20, 2016, at River Glen Health Care in Connecticut.
