A Great Man Died This Weekend

[pamela]

Civil rights attorney Dean Robb passed away Sunday.

Robb was in his 30s in 1961 when he began helping a group called Friends of the South organize 25 civil rights attorneys, mostly from Detroit, to help get Freedom Riders and other civil rights activists out of jail, challenge illegal arrests, and work with southern lawyers and civil rights organizations. In 1963, he organized an inter-racial conference of 10-12 southern lawyers in Atlanta where Martin Luther King Jr. spoke shortly after he was released from a Birmingham Jail. Robb’s biggest civil rights case was a civil lawsuit against the FBI filed by the family of murdered Detroit freedom rider Viola Liuzzo.

https://www.pittlawpc.com/news/Dean-Robb-as-Freedom-Tour-Leader-and-Civil-Rights-Legend_AE30.html

One of Viola Liuzzo's daughters posted this on Facebook yesterday... "Attorney Dean Robb passed at 5:05pm today. Dean has been a part of our family since the early 1970’s. He represented our wrongful death case for our mom Viola Liuzzo. He never left us. He was always there with an ear to listen and ready to help in anyway he could. He took the five of us under his wing after our dad died in 1978. Dean lived a wonderful life, always fighting for social justice. I was so very blessed he was a large part of our lives."

Rest in peace.

[pamela]

2. No.

Maybe another Dean Robb. Here's another article about his son. It's from last year and he is referring to his father in the present tense. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/detroit-city/2017/06/11/detroit-attorney-famous-father-robb/102723186/

And the Viola Liuzzo Facebook page where his death was announced yesterday...
https://www.facebook.com/ViolaLiuzzoCivilRightsMartyr/?__tn__=kC-R&eid=ARCbH0X8vHcvsP2QOVqForQXs7uY2ICRYq9qPzSZdA0OBD1d79TPgJJpmP7SiRXc_8PowojAnHY1NUtX&hc_ref=ARSOQ-uzqcGb9RAz_KTJbHeU8LfWOwffpYoCnUCc1qsMN-1DsV6RZv5VBgJqgDVbpqk&fref=nf&__xts__

[pamela]

3. Here's a picture of him taken in 2015

Dean Robb, the Liuzzo family’s attorney who sued the FBI after Viola Liuzzo’s murder, speaks at a fundraiser for the Viola Liuzzo Park in Detroit on April 12, 2015. The park is named for Viola Liuzzo, civil rights activist who was killed in Selma.(Photo: Robin Buckson / / The Detroit News)

[burrowowl]

4. RIP!

A great human being, unlike Bu$h I

[pamela]

5. Found a good article about him...

...if anyone is interested in reading more.


https://www.michiganadvance.com/2018/12/04/legendary-civil-rights-lawyer-dean-robb-dies/