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Mar 7, 2015 · Jacquelyn Martin—AP. President Barack Obama, center, walks as he holds hands with Amelia Boynton Robinson and Rep. John Lewis, who were beaten during 'Bloody Sunday,' as they and the first ...
Mar 9, 2015 · In Selma, the President greets former foot soldier Amelia Boynton Robinson, 103 years old, backstage before the ceremony. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) The President speaks to the foot soldiers who attended the 50th anniversary event.
Mar 9, 2015 · President Barack Obama walks across the Edmund Pettus Bridge between Amelia Boynton Robinson and John Lewis, both of whom were beaten during the original march. Image : Reuters/Jonathan Ernst
In March of 2015, on the 50th anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery March, Boynton Robinson marched across the Edmund Pettus bridge alongside President Barack Obama and Congressman John Lewis. On August 26, 2015, at the age of 104, Boynton Robinson passed away after suffering multiple strokes.
Robinson, Amelia Boynton, 1911-2015. Amelia Robinson was born in 1911 in Georgia, in a family of 10 children. Her father was a building contractor. She traces her history on both sides back to a mixture of African slaves, Cherokee Indians, and German and other European nobility. Boynton Robinson is perhaps best known as the woman at the front ...
Aug 26, 2015 · President Barack Obama held her hand as they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge 50 years later CNN — Amelia Boynton Robinson, a matriarch of the civil rights movement immortalized in a photograph ...
Aug 26, 2015 · Amelia Boynton Robinson, center, who was beaten during \"Bloody Sunday,\" holds President Barack Obama's hand as they walk across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., Saturday, March ...
