Presenting Adult Literacy Advocates' 19th Annual Author Event
An Afternoon with the Author
Book Talk, Reception and Book Signing
Saturday, April 26, 2025 at 3:00 p.m.
Featuring Dr. Press L. Robinson, Sr.
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Author of Pressing Forward
“Dr. Press Robinson is an American success story. Not by design, but by necessity. His life should inspire and encourage people to live fully engaged, even when they don’t want to be. His story is also a testament to education being the key to unlocking an incredible life.” Todd L. Sterling, owner of Alpha Media & Public Relation. “Dr. Press L. Robinson has written a compelling account of his rise from early life as the only child of sharecropper parents in rural South Carolina to becoming an esteemed academician and professor of chemistry to groundbreaking achievements in education as the first African American elected to the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board.” -Judge Freddie Pitcher Jr. (ret.) |
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Dr. Press L. Robinson Sr. began his career as an assistant professor of chemistry at Southern University Baton Rouge. He retired forty-one years later, having served as associate vice chancellor at Southern University Baton Rouge, chancellor at Southern University New Orleans, and vice president of the Southern University system. In his down-to-earth memoir, Pressing Forward, he recounts his hardscrabble childhood in South Carolina, his education at Morehouse College and Howard University, his career as a professor and administrator in the Southern University system, and his activities as a community leader in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The first elected Black member of the East Baton Rouge Parish School Board, Robinson consistently fought to level the playing fields for Black Americans and to better the social and physical environment of his adopted city.
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