Edna Mae Robinson (September 4, 1915 – May 2, 2002) was an American dancer, actress, and activist.[1] She was a dancer at the Cotton Club and toured Europe with Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. She later became a public figure when she married the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, appearing on the first cover of Jet magazine in 1951.[2] Robinson made her Broadway debut in an all-black version of Born Yesterday in 1953.[3]
^"Edna Mae Robinson, 86; Ex-Wife of Boxing Great, Performer and Activist". The Los Angeles Times. May 5, 2002.
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^C, L. (January 1, 1954). "AT THE THEATRE; Garson Kanin's 'Born Yesterday' Is Revived Here by Negro Troop Led by Edna Mae Robinson". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331.
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the Sun (1959) and reprised the role in the 1961 film and Lutiebell Gussie Mae Jenkins in the Ossie Davis play Purlie Victorious (1961) and reprised the...
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