User:JKizzieHumanities/Catherine Robinson (educator)

Catherine Robinson was an educator, civil rights activist, and actress from Providence, Rhode Island. She was inducted into the Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame in 1975.

She was assistant director of the University of Rhode Island Extension Service. She received an honorary doctorate from Rhode Island College for her work in education. Robinson was also an actress. In addition to appearing in Rhode Island theater, Robinson starred in a local-access television show about homemaking, "How It Is," in the late 1970s. She founded a black theater troupe, the Scitimard Players, in the 1930s. As a resident of the East Side neighborhood of Providence, Robinson also helped form the East Side Neighborhood Council.