Maj. Ronnie Robinson from the St. Louis City Police is working with Johnson. He underlined the importance of dialog with residents. "We feel the pain in the community," he said. They can protest 24 hours, if they want to.
was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in downtown Memphis. Despite the simmering tension, and the fact that few of the city's great black players had gone to Memphis State, Larry Finch and Ronnie Robinson teammates at nearby Melrose High enrolled in 1969 and unwittingly changed everything. By
Sandra and Ronnie Robinson of Birmingham, Ala., set up folding chairs to watch the ceremony. Ronnie Robinson, 54, said he was in first grade when the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham was bombed by white supremacists. Four little girls were killed.