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Bill Bojangles Robin was born Luther Robinson in Richmond, Virginia.
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Bill would dance at local saloons when he had the chance at the age of 6. The following year when he was 7 he would drop out of school to go after his dance career.
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He became known within the vaudeville circuit about two years after he had dropped out of school.
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Robinson had gotten his first professional job performing as a member of the pickaninny chorus for Mayme Remington with The South Before War.
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Robinson had introduced what had become his signature, "the Stair Dance" which incorporated him tapping up and down the steps.
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Bill performs in his first movie; Dixiana which featured a dominantly white cast.
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Bill teams up with Shirley Temple and produces four movies with her in which he is teaching her how to tap dance. (1935 & 1938)
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Bill cofounded the New York Black Yankees team, based in Harlem, with financier James Semler. The team was a part of the Negro National League until 1948, when Major League Baseball first integrated racially.
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Bill had passed on in 1949 in New York. Many people had turned out for his service because it's said that he had touched the heart of many people.
