Catholic Pacifist, who was a founder of the Fellowship of Reconciliation's Committee on Racial Equality, in Chicago, in 1942. The group became a major Civil Rights group as the Congress of Racial Equality. Robinson kept the group on a sound financial footing & was the second Executive Director, leading it through the student sit-in period. He is widely credited as the Father of direct mail fundraising. He had been a Catholic Worker activist, was a conscientious objector in the WWII, & was interned. Later with the American Committee on Africa, American Indian groups & the NAACP. Oral history available at Columbia University, New York.