Robert Edward Robinson (July 30, 1947 – December 18, 1989) was a lawyer, civil rights activist, and city councilmember in Savannah, Georgia.

As a teenager, Robinson was involved in the integration of the city's school system and was part of a demonstration that contributed to the desegregation of Savannah Beach.

[4] According to an article about Robinson in The New York Times, one of his earliest involvements in the civil rights movement came in 1963, when he participated in an NAACP-organized "wade-in" event to desegregate the beach at Tybee Island, near Savannah.

[5] The event, a part of the Savannah Protest Movement, was led by local civil rights leader W. W. Law,[6] and while the demonstrators were arrested, all charges against them were later dropped and the beach was desegregated.

Robinson left the Air Force in the summer of 1968 and enrolled for classes at Savannah State University, where he studied accounting.

[7] During his time at Savannah State, Robinson married Vivian Cook, a friend of his sister's who had attended Paine College in Augusta, Georgia.

Vance had been a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit and had presided over several major civil rights cases.

[16] The perpetrator of these attacks was later found to be Walter Moody, a Georgian who had targeted individuals associated with the civil rights movement.