Roberta Mants Hubert is the second of four siblings. I completed my degree at Morris Brown and
retired from the Fulton County Health Department. During 1960s, our family lived in the “heart” of what
was the Atlanta University Center (6 historic Black colleges); Atlanta University (now Clark Atlanta),
Morris Brown College, Interdenominational Theological Seminary, Spelman College, Morehouse College,
and Clark College (now Clark Atlanta University). When the six school organized the Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) our Mom became a part of that Movement by befriending the students

walking pass our home regularly. As a result, my brother, Robert, who had entered Morehouse as a pre-
med student and our family became involved also.

My brother left Morehouse joined the organization which focused on voting rights and human

rights. Travelling through southern Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, he became Field Secretary for the
organization. He was the young man standing just behind John Lewis as they crossed the Edmund Pettus
bridge on Bloody Sunday. He saw Amelia Boynton Robinson being trampled and went back, picked her
up and saved her from the furious beatings of the Troopers that day.

Robert settled in Lowndes County, Alabama, married, and raised a family. He continued his civil and
human rights work until his untimely death in 2011. As a result of his civil and human rights work in the
area, the Alabama legislature in 2021 named 22 miles of highway from Lowndes County, Alabama to
Selma in his honor and on April 25, 2022, the memorial road sign will be installed.

I was married to Elder Paul P. Hubert for 22 years before his death in February 1999. I am thankful to be
a member of the Berean SDA Church and enjoyed the years I was a part Berean Child Development
Center working with the children.