Dino Robinson

CTL-E-4852 · Person · activist · 1995-present

PROVISIONAL evidence grade of this record

Founder of the Shorefront Legacy Center (1995), created to collect materials documenting the contributions, lives, and history of Black people on Chicago's North Shore.

Relationships

Evanston — from
Morris 'Dino' Robinson Jr. is a lifelong resident of Evanston, Illinois, where he founded the Shorefront Legacy Center in 1995.

Referenced by

Shorefront Legacy Center — founded by → this record

Sources

UChicago Library - BMRC Survey Exhibit Text (Shorefront founded 1995 by Dino Robinson)

Record CTL-E-4852 · CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph · evidence grade: PROVISIONAL · 1 source · 2 mapped relationships · CTL research: RELP-001.
Directory: all entity records · the knowledge graph

Cite this record

Cite as: CultureTechLens, “Dino Robinson (CTL-E-4852),” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, October 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-4852/

Chicago: CultureTechLens. “Dino Robinson (CTL-E-4852).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. Chicago, IL: CultureTechLens, 2026. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-4852/
APA: CultureTechLens. (2026). Dino Robinson (CTL-E-4852) [Entity record]. CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph. https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-4852/
MLA: CultureTechLens. “Dino Robinson (CTL-E-4852).” CultureTechLens Knowledge Graph, 2026, https://culturetechlens.com/graph/entities/ctl-e-4852/

Citation guidance for teachers, journalists, and funders: How to Cite Us.

From the Archive

The archive in pictures

The people, places, and institutions this work documents. Photographs from the CultureTechLens research record — rights-cleared, credited, and cited like everything else here.

Children at a meal, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Children playing in vacant lot in Negro section of Chicago, Illinois, Chicago, 1941Photo: Lee, Russell, 1903-1986, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Hallway of a kitchenette apartment building, Chicago, 1941Photo: Russell Lee, FSA-OWI, Public Domain, via Library of Congress

Trust & evidence

Evidence before authority. CultureTechLens publishes its methods, its limits, and its corrections alongside its findings. Claims carry grades — VERIFIED, SUPPORTED, PROVISIONAL, DISPUTED, UNRESOLVED — and unknowns are never reported as zero.

Every claim graded. Every source named. Every correction public — see the corrections log.