Perry Ray Robinson

Death by Force

In the spring of 1973, Perry Ray Robinson, a 35-year-old Black/African American male and civil rights activist from Alabama, traveled to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. He was drawn there by the Wounded Knee occupation, a 71-day standoff between members of the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement. Robinson, a follower of Martin Luther King Jr., had a history of activism, including participating in the 1963 March on Washington and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign ...Read More

FBI confirms black activist was killed during 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee

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