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In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard University, his career as a professor and administrator in the Southern University system, and his activities as a community leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The first elected Black member of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Robinson consistently fought to level the playing fields for Black Americans and to better the social and physical environment of his adopted city.
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"A civil rights veteran recollects over fifty years of organizing to amplify Black political voices across the American South. Dr. Robinson's journey takes him from the sharecropping fields of Claussen, South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, where he continues his lifelong fight for equal representation. Pressing Forward is a clarion call to all who concern themselves with the work of racial j
Phillip Norman, oral historian of Grassroots Democracy