Randall Robinson, human rights activist and lawyer, has died at 81

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Randall Robinson, a human rights activist and lawyer known for his advocacy against South African apartheid and for Haitian democracy, died Friday at age 81. He died in St. Kitts, the Caribbean island where he spent the last two decades of his life, of aspiration pneumonia.

"He was an incredible father," said Khalea Ross Robinson, his daughter, who confirmed his death to NPR on Sunday. "He did a lot on behalf of people he hadn't even met."

Robinson was one of the leaders of the Free South Africa Movement, which began in the 1980s and pushed to end apartheid. He "led a range of foreign policy campaigns in his life-long advocacy in defense of democracy and justice in Africa and the Caribbean," a press release from Robinson's family says.

Robinson founded the Washington, D.C.-based foreign policy advocacy organization TransAfrica in 1977 to promote "diversity and equity in the foreign policy arena and justice for the African World" including the African diaspora, according to the group's mission statement. He served as the president of the organization until 2001.