Aundrie Dee Robinson (1961-2000) was a poet, community organizer, and founder of Round Table of Unity (RTU), a non-profit organization based in Brattleboro, Vermont. The collection consists of two videos documenting Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Day Celebrations she helped organize in 1997 and 1999.
Aundrie Dee Robinson (1961-2000) was a poet, community organizer, and founder of Round Table of Unity (RTU), a non-profit organization based in Brattleboro, Vermont.
Robinson worked with local businesses and organizations such as the Coalition for Unlearning/Uprooting Racism through Education (CURE) to address racism in Brattleboro by coordinating community programs and events such as Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Day Celebrations. She led two community writing groups for young people: Pint Size Poets and Rainbow Posse Spoken Word Artists. Robinson died of breast cancer in 2000.
The collection consists of two videos of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unity Day Celebrations held in 1997 and 1999 at Everyone's Books, an independent progressive bookstore and community space in Brattleboro, Vermont. The videos are organized chronologically.
The Robinson family, 2003.
Collection inventoried by Nathan Evans. Collection processed and described by Lyric Evans-Hunter, archivist; and Shola Lynch, curator. Finding aid published in 2024.
See the Manuscripts, Archives, and Rare Books Division for the Aundrie Robinson papers, Sc MG 719.