Edna Mae Robinson

She later became a public figure when she married the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson, appearing on the first cover of Jet magazine in 1951.

Robinson studied dance as a child, and after her parents died, she moved to New York to live with her aunt when she was five.

[9] In 1956, she was a guest artist at Detroit producer Ziggy Johnson's annual dance school graduation party at the Latin Quarter.

[5] Robinson was active in Martin Luther King Jr.'s Southern Christian Leadership Conference,[11] the NAACP, and she supported several charities.

[1] When Robinson resided in Riverdale in the early 1960s, she was chairman of Intergroup, an organization working for housing integration.

[12] After Sugar Ray's' death in 1989, Robinson reflected on their turbulent marriage by putting her painful memories into a manuscript.

[13][14][4] In 1969, Sugar Ray tried to declare their marriage void on the grounds that her divorce from  a previous husband was fraudulent; his case was dismissed.

[15] In 1989, Robinson stated her divorce settlement amounted to a little more than $23,000 due to Sugar Ray's bad investments and issues with the IRS.