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Spottswood William Robinson III (July 26 1916 – October 11 1998) was an educator civil rights attorney and judge. In the early 1950s Robinson and his law-partner Oliver Hill litigated several civil rights lawsuits in Virginia. In 1951 Robinson and Hill took up the cause of the African American students at the segregated R.R. Moton High School in Farmville who had walked out of their dilapidated school. The subsequent lawsuit Davis v.