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so earlier to form the Wounded Knee Legal Defense-Offense Committee and act as AIM's spokesman.
• "I've heard some rumors about this Robinson thing, but supposedly that happened a long time after I was gone, if anything did happen," he said. "Nobody's ever talked to me about it implicating anybody or even said it's happened."
• Perry Ray Robinson Jr. was born Sept. 12, 1937. He was in Washington in 1963 for Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have A Dream" speech, and attended the 1964 funeral of three white civil rights workers killed in Mississippi.
• In 1968, Robinson was among the protesters who set up Resurrection City, a camp at the Washington Mall.
• Robinson likely was at Wounded Knee for just a day, but Buswell-Robinson is surprised so many AIM members don't remember him. The personable 6-foot-2

black man with a deep baritone voice would have stood out on a Midwest American Indian reservation, she said.
• Robinson's nonviolent approach probably was not well received at what was a violent situation, and it's possible AIM members incorrectly suspected he was a federal informant, Buswell-Robinson said. It's also likely he dealt with some racism, she said.
• "I'm hoping that AIM people can look in their hearts and realize this was a good man. This is a brother," Buswell-

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