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Edward Daniel (E. D.) Robinson
Ex-educator, youth worker dies at 74
This article appeared in the Arkansas Gazette when Principal
Robinson passed away at age 74.
Edward Daniel Robinson, aged 74, of 3110 High Street, [Little Rock, AR] a retired educator and juvenile correction worker, died Friday.
Mr. Robinson had taught in high schools at Lewisville, Stephens,
 McCaskill, El Dorado and Blevins and was a supervisor of counselors in a program for youths who served time in correctional institutions.
He was a graduate of Philander Smith College and Fisk University at Nashville, Tenn.
Mr. Robinson was a former treasurer of the Leadership Roundtable, a former president of the Hempstead County Teachers Association and a former member of the Arkansas Teachers Association. He also was a former vice president of the Union District Association and resident director of the Trans-Continental Insurance Company.
He was a member of the Arkansas Juvenile Correctional Association, the NAACP and Urban League.
He was a deacon and Sunday school superintendent at Mount Zion Baptist Church and secretary of the state and district Baptist Laymen's Association.
 Survivors are his wife, Elizabeth Thompson Robinson; a stepson, Jerry L. Jackson of Yokoto, Japan; two daughters, Eudora G. Mitchell and Martha Y. Brantley, both of Moreno Valley, Cal.; a brother, O. D. Robinson of Chicago; two sisters, Elveine Sims of Chicago and Willie Jane Forest of Little Rock, and five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral arrangements will be announced by Dubisson Funeral Home.
―Submitted by Virginia Carson Burrell
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