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She was born in a Florence Crittenton home for unwed mothers in Denver. Her mother is Wendy Robinson, a jack-of-all-trades and IT worker. Her father was Floyd Herschel Roberson, a truck driver. Wendy Robinson was one of the early members of the Rainbow Coalition in Denver.
On her mother’s side, Shannon Robinson comes from a family of Western Slope pioneers. Her great-grandfather was a state game warden and ran the Crystal River fish hatchery...
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A reverend and minister in Grand Junction’s Center for Spiritual Living. Prior to that time, she worked as a Prayer Practitioner. She attended Western State College (now Western Colorado University), where she met Wendy Robinson, the mother of Mesa County Oral History Project interviewee Shannon Robinson. She helped care for Shannon after she was pulled from elementary school due to racism and bullying.
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She was born in Grand Junction, Colorado to William Wesley Taylor and Helen (Booker) Taylor. Her father was one of the main caretakers and officials of the Handy Chapel, Grand Junction's historically Black church. Her mother was a homemaker. 1930 US Census records indicate that they lived at 817 Kimball Avenue in the Las Colonias neighborhood, when she was six. The same census shows her father working as a porter in a barber shop. Josephine attended...