Dr. Leonard Robinson discusses his mother, Yvonne Robinson, with tedslowik and how his late parents are depicted in a Smithsonian Museum of American History exhibit on the first Black families in Park Forest.
Park Forest is featured in the exhibit,"America on the Move," on permanent display at the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Robinson shared her recollections about moving to Park Forest as part of the Park Forest Oral History Project in 1980. A digital archive of the Illinois State Library maintained by the secretary of state’s office“Most of the neighbors I found friendly,” she said 42 years ago. “I could tell they were very inquisitive. My children made friends rapidly. There was one or two families that I could feel were quite hostile, but they stayed out of my way and I stayed out of theirs.”Leonard Robinson Jr.
Yvonne Robinson worked as an educator. She was a principal and teacher, including at a school named after her late eldest brother, Dr. Charles E. Gavin. After his death in 1971 at age 44, relatives established a charitable foundation in his name. The family home had the biggest yard in the neighborhood, he said, and became the gathering spot for young athletes.Yvonne and Leonard Sr. set good examples for their children, he said.
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