BIBFRAME Work

Title

Pressing forward

Type

  • Text
  • Monograph

Contribution

Robinson, Press L., Sr (author)

Subject

Genre Form

Language

Illustrative Content

Classification

  • LCC: LA2317.R565 A3 2024 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)
  • DDC: 370.92, B (Assigner: dlc)

Content

Supplementary content

Summary

"In this down-to-earth memoir, longtime educator and community leader Press L. Robinson Sr. 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Foreword / by Charles Vincent -- The Formative Years -- Family Matters -- Going to College -- Home Sweet Home, or Acclimation to Baton Rouge -- Early Years at Southern -- Wings beyond the University -- My Waltz with the Courts -- Challenges, Challenges, Challenges -- Southern Administrative Career -- Other System Positions -- Life after Southern.

Authorized Access Point

Robinson, Press L., Sr. Pressing forward

Geographic Coverage

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30T17:45:52.123063+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23806099

Admin Metadata

  • Date: 2026-09-30
  • Cataloger id: Unknown
  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
  • Description authentication: pcc

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