Transcript of oral interview of Robinson by Sue Thrasher and Eliot Wiggington, November 9, 1980

Topics discussed include early family years, unions for the skilled trades; educational system in Charleston County, segregation differences in the South and North; Robinson's experiences working in garment factories and beauty shops in Harlem, New York; South Carolina Human Relations Council; NAACP; Ruby Hurley; Hubert Humphrey; Septima Clark; Rosa Parks; Esau Jenkins, the Progressive Club and African American education and voter registration; Robinson's involvement with the Highlander Folk School; Myles Horton; experience as being the first Citizenship School teacher; the establishment of Citizenship Schools on Johns, Wadmalaw and Edisto Islands; funding from Maxwell Hahn of the Field Foundation; the 1959 raid on Highlander; Andrew Young, Jr.; Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Medgar Evers; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Rosa Parks; Hosea Williams; Bayard Rustin; James Bevel; Dorothy Cotton; Randolph Blackwell, and others; Robert Moses and the Council of Federated Organization; Robinson's employment with the South Carolina Commission for Farm Workers/VISTA Volunteers program; her run for the State House of Representatives; consultant work with IDEAS and the terminated Civil Rights Movement Oral History Project; literacy training; and economic and social advancements of African Americans resulting from the Civil Rights movement.