"The family of Elizabeth “Betty” Garman Robinson established this fund to honor her life and legacy, passion for organizing, love of Baltimore, and persistent fight against injustice. Proceeds will be donated to organizations reflecting her values. Thank you for your contribution.

Elizabeth “Betty” Garman Robinson was born January 8, 1939 in New York City and raised in Pleasantville, NY. Betty moved to Atlanta in March 1964 to work full-time in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) office. During her years with SNCC Betty was the Northern Friends of SNCC Coordinator; Chair of the University of California, Berkeley Friends of SNCC chapter; and a member of the SNCC staff in Atlanta, Georgia, Greenwood, Mississippi, and Washington, D.C.  1972, Betty moved to Baltimore to work in a factory, organizing a rank-and-file movement within the union. For 18 years after that she worked in public health, first as a researcher in occupational medicine at Baltimore City Hospitals and then at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health as a researcher on injury prevention and HIV-AIDS studies. Betty also was the Lead Organizer for the Citizens Planning and Housing Association (CPHA), which organized communities to take action on quality-of-life issues in the Baltimore region. In 2003, she was one of 10 Baltimoreans to receive an Open Society Institute Community Fellowship. Her project was to popularize the history of social justice organizing in Baltimore. She later began the Baltimore chapter of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), a national organization calling white people to work for racial justice. In November 2017, she was appointed to serve on the Baltimore City Civilian Review Board. Betty is co-editor of “Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC” (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and served on the SNCC 60th Anniversary Conference Planning Committee. Betty died unexpectedly in October of 2020. She is survived by her brother, two daughters, three grandchildren, and an extremely large network of other family and friends who love her deeply."