Ruby Doris Smith Robinson

Ruby Doris Smith was born on the twenty-fifth of April 1942 at Atlanta, Georgia, the second of seven children of Alice Banks Smith — a Black Atlanta beautician of the principal closing-period Atlanta-South-Side closing-period programmes — and J. T. Smith, a Black-Atlanta minister of the Mount Zion Second Baptist Church at Atlanta. She was raised in the Black-Atlanta Methodist-Baptist working-class household of her parents.

She was placed at six at the principal Atlanta Coloured Public Schools and at the principal Spelman College preparatory programme of the closing months of the closing-period 1959 American closing-period programmes. She enrolled in 1959 at the Spelman College at Atlanta and was the principal closing-period Spelman-Sit-In Movement senior closing-period closing-period programmes participant at the principal closing-period closing-period Spelman closing-period closing-period programmes of the closing months of 1960.

She was at the principal closing-period February 1960 Spelman-and-Atlanta-University-Centre sit-in-and-direct-action closing-period programmes one of the principal closing-period Spelman closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes leaders — at the principal closing-period closing-period Atlanta-Sit-In Movement closing-period programmes of the closing months of February 1960.

She was named in October 1960 the principal SNCC closing-period Spelman closing-period closing-period closing-period programmes representative at the principal closing-period closing-period Atlanta-and-SNCC closing-period programmes of the closing months of October 1960.

She was one of the principal closing-period 1961 Freedom Riders at the principal closing-period closing-period 1961 Freedom Rides closing-period programmes of the closing months of May and June 1961 — and was imprisoned at the Mississippi-Parchman-Penitentiary for forty-five days at the closing-period closing-period 1961 Freedom Rides closing-period programmes.

She was named in 1962 the principal SNCC personnel administrator at the principal closing-period SNCC Atlanta headquarters of the closing-period 1962 to 1966 SNCC closing-period programmes — and was named in May 1966 the principal closing-period SNCC executive secretary at the principal closing-period SNCC Kingston Springs, Tennessee closing-period programmes of the closing months of May 1966 — at the principal closing-period SNCC closing-period leadership transition of the principal closing-period closing-period SNCC closing-period programmes of the closing months of May 1966.

She was the principal closing-period SNCC executive secretary across the principal closing-period closing-period 1966 to 1967 SNCC closing-period programmes — the second principal closing-period SNCC executive secretary after James Forman (placed in this archive) — and was the principal closing-period SNCC closing-period administrative architect of the principal closing-period closing-period SNCC Black-Power 1966 to 1967 closing-period programmes.

She directed the SNCC across the principal closing-period closing-period 1966 to 1967 SNCC Black-Power closing-period programmes — at the principal closing-period closing-period SNCC closing-period administrative-and-financial-and-staffing closing-period programmes of the closing months of the principal post-1966 closing-period SNCC closing-period programmes.

She contracted Hodgkin lymphoma in 1966 at the principal closing-period closing-period closing-period SNCC executive secretary period and continued the principal SNCC executive secretary role through her diagnosis across 1966 and 1967.

She died at Atlanta, Georgia on the seventh of October 1967 of complications of Hodgkin lymphoma, at twenty-five.

She is honored here as the second SNCC executive secretary.