Lawrence 'Robbie' Robinson has helped organize the Martin Luther King Jr. birthday celebration in Alexandria, Va., for 50 years in a row.
envisioned a gathering at a church, with music and speeches, where people of all ages and backgrounds could come to reflect and learn. Robbie, a talented photographer, would be tasked with capturing it all.“We just had to make sure that people didn’t forget who King was and what he did,” Robbie said.
They threw apple cores and paper bags at Robbie’s head as he and his siblings walked three miles to their segregated schoolhouse.“We didn’t care, because we didn’t know we should care,” Robbie said. “We were taught that we were second-class citizens.” He and Evangeline watched the ways things were different for their children, Sharon and Warren. And the ways they weren’t. Instead of dodging trash thrown by White students, Warren played side by side with them. He was a wide receiver on the 1971 T.C. Williams High School football team, later captured in the movie “Remember the Titans.” Most of the 2000 film, he thought, was accurate.“Fast forward,” Robbie said again and again, because a lot can happen in 92 years.
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