According to FBI documents, Ray Robinson, 35 years old at the time and a well-known civil rights activist, was shot and killed at the Wounded Knee occupation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota around April 1973. His widow, Cheryl Buswell Robinson, has been seeking answers ever since then hoping to know where her husband is buried as โit would be nice to bring him home for a nice church service.โ Ray had gone to the reservation to support the American Indian Movement (AIM) in its fight against the federal government.
The occupation by AIM is credited with raising awareness about Native American struggles. Cheryl and other family members believe he was killed because the movement thought he was a government informant as Ray's nonviolent approach conflicted with the โviolent situationโ and the โpersonable, 6-foot-2 black man with a deep baritone voice would have stood out on a Midwest American Indian reservation.โ
Perry Ray Robinson Jr. was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in Washington. His mother was a nurse and was pregnant with his sister during the Great Depression when their father was shot and killed during a poker game. Their mother was left to raise four children on her own. Cheryl met Ray at an anti-war rally in Madison, Wisconsin. They moved to Alabama where they ran a small communal farm of 10 acres and set up a free clinic which โwas trying to teach people to empower their livesโ by offering basic medical and nutrition advice.
Rayโs daughter, Desiree Marks, recalls his commitment to civil rights by sharing how he crossed out and wrote โhumanโ in the race section of each of his childrenโs birth certificates highlighting that โhis whole thing was not black civil rightsโฆ.it was human civil rightsโฆand my race is human.โ Ray was also involved with several anti-war and civil rights groups including Vietnam Veterans Against the War. While he was attending a VVAW meeting, he learned the Native Americans who were occupying Wounded Knee could use some assistance and Ray felt โthis would be a good chance to unite the Indian movement and the black movement.โ
Ray Robinson and three others from Alabama headed to South Dakota as the occupation of Wounded Knee stretched into the spring of 1973. Members of the militant AIM had seized a small town to protest what they saw as the โcorrupt tribal leadershipโ of Richard Wilson who controlled โtoo much of the employment and other limited opportunities on the reservationโ and demanded that the U.S. government h
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According to FBI documents, Ray Robinson, 35 years old at the time and a well-known civil rights activist, was shot and killed at the Wounded Knee occupation on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota around April 1973. His widow, Cheryl Buswell Robinson, has been seeking answers ever since then hoping to know where her husband is buried as โit would be nice to bring him home for a nice church service.โ Ray had gone to the reservation to support the American Indian Movement (AIM) in its fight against the federal government. The occupation by AIM is credited with raising awareness about Native American struggles. Cheryl and other family members believe he was killed because the movement thought he was a government informant as Ray's nonviolent approach conflicted with the โviolent situationโ and the โpersonable, 6-foot-2 black man with a deep baritone voice would have stood out on a Midwest American Indian reservation.โ
Perry Ray Robinson Jr. was born on Sept. 12, 1937, in Washington. His mother was a nurse and was pregnant with his sister during the Great Depression when their father was shot and killed during a poker game. Their mother was left to raise four children on her own. Cheryl met Ray at an anti-war rally in Madison, Wisconsin. They moved to Alabama where they ran a small communal farm of 10 acres and set up a free clinic which โwas trying to teach people to empower their livesโ by offering basic medical advice and information about nutrition. Rayโs daughter, Desiree Marks, recalls his commitment to civil rights by sharing how he crossed out and wrote โhumanโ in the race section of each of his childrenโs birth certificates highlighting that โhis whole thing was not black civil rightsโฆ.it was human civil rightsโฆand my race is human.โ Ray was also involved with several anti-war and civil rights groups including Vietnam Veterans Against the War. While he was attending a VVAW meeting, he learned the Native Americans who were occupying Wounded Knee could use some assistance and Ray felt โthis would be a good chance to unite the Indian movement and the black movement.โ
Ray Robinson and three others from Alabama headed to South Dakota as the occupation of Wounded Knee stretched into the spring of 1973. Members of the militant AIM had seized a small town to protest what they saw as the โcorrupt tribal leadershipโ of Richard Wilson who controlled โtoo much of the employment and other limited opportunities on the reservationโ and demanded that the U
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