By Kenneth S. Tollett

Tennessee State Representative Clarence Bernard Robinson is a family man, educator, civic and political leader, and a bridge over the troubled waters that separate Blacks from whites, the young from the old, the poor from the rich, and the educated from the uneducated.

Because of the above, the State of Tennessee General Assembly passed a Bill which Governor Lamar Alexander signed into law, naming a major bridge over the Tennessee River in Hamilton County after C. B. Robinson at the initiation of Senator William H. Ortwein and State Representative Robert C. (Bob) Davis of Hamilton County. The Bill was unanimously supported by the entire Hamilton County Delegation, including State Representative Bobby G. Wood in whose District the bridge was built.