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Ruby Doris Smith-Robinson (April 25, 1942 – October 7, 1967) worked with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) from its earliest days in 1960 until her death in October 1967. She served the organization as an activist in the field and as an administrator in the Atlanta central office.
Learn about Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, a key leader and organizer in SNCC who fought for racial justice and freedom. She was the first and only woman to serve as SNCC's executive secretary and died of cancer at 25.
17 de jan. de 2009 · Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, born in Atlanta, Georgia on April 25, 1942, was a civil rights leader. Robinson, the second oldest of seven children born to Alice and John T. Smith, was raised in Atlanta’s black middleclass neighborhood of Summerhill.
Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith (1942–1967) Civil-rights activist, founding member of the Atlanta Student Movement and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and outstanding organizer who urged those in the movement for racial justice not only to work for goals which would benefit poor- and middle-class African-Americans but to risk their ...
Robinson, Ruby Doris Smith, 1941-1967. Biography: Member of Highlander Workshop for SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), Highlander Research and Education Center, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1962.
Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. 1942 – 1967 . Ruby Doris Smith was born and raised in Atlanta, GA. As a student at Spelman College, she picketed and participated in sit-ins, joining the Atlanta Student Movement. That led her to SNCC’s founding conference at Shaw University in 1960.
One of those women who experienced these struggles was Ruby Doris Smith Robinson. She began her activist career In the Atlanta Student Movement. She was a freshman at Spelman College In Atlanta. Georgia in 1960 when lunch counter sit-ins first started. Early on, though. Ruby began to look beyond Atlanta and concentrate her efforts on the national
