Sugar Ray Robinson in 1989. In 2006 he was featured on a commemorative stamp by the United States Postal Service. Robinson was born Walker Smith Jr. in Ailey, Georgia, to Walker Smith Sr. and Leila Hurst. Robinson was the youngest of three children; his eldest sister Marie was born in 1917 and his other sister Evelyn was born in 1919. His father was a cotton, peanut, and corn farmer in Georgia, who moved the family to Detroit where he initially found work in construction. According to Robinson, Smith Sr. later worked two jobs to support his family—cement mixer and sewer worker. "He had
Jean Walker-Smith Jean Walker-Smith Jean Barbara Walker-Smith ("née" Bridger; 17 March 1924 – 23 February 2010), was a female tennis player from England who was active in the late 1940s and 1950s. She reached two Grand Slam semifinals in the singles event and one in doubles and achieved a highest singles ranking of world no. 5 in 1951. Walker-Smith was educated at Roedean School, a girls boarding school in Brighton. During World War II she worked in an armaments factory. Her best singles performances at a Grand Slam tournament came in 1951 when she reached the semifinal of the French Championships and