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Aug 27, 2015 · Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was called the matriarch of the voting rights movement — and whose photograph, showing her beaten, gassed and left for dead in the epochal civil rights march...
Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist and supercentenarian who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, [1] and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
Mar 21, 2023 · Her husband died in 1963, and Boynton Robinson used his memorial service as the first mass meeting for Black people in Selma. The next year, she ran for Congress, the first Black woman in...
Nov 29, 2015 · Amelia Boynton Robinson died on August 26, 2015, not long after having viewed her role in Bloody Sunday depicted in the Oscar-nominated film Selma. Her life represents the deep roots of civil rights activism in the rural South and the important role of African American women within these grassroots traditions.
Jan 10, 2015 · Now, on this day in December, 103-year-old Amelia Boynton Robinson is hosting a private screening of a new movie in which her role as a civil rights matriarch immortalizes her again. She was too...
Apr 3, 2014 · Amelia Boynton Robinson was a civil rights pioneer who championed voting rights for African Americans. She was brutally beaten for helping to lead a 1965 civil rights march, which...
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Mar 6, 2015 · Amelia Boynton Robinson, more than a century old and a matriarch of the civil rights movement, recalls how she was beaten, tear-gassed and left for dead in Selma, Ala., 50 years ago on the day...
