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Apr 3, 2014 · In March of that year, at the age of 103, Boynton Robinson held hands with President Obama as they marched alongside fellow civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis across the Edmund...
In 2015, Robinson attended the State of the Union Address in January at the invitation of President Barack Obama, and, in her wheelchair, was at Obama's side as he and others walked across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the Selma Voting Rights Movement 50th Anniversary Jubilee that March.
- Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal (1990)
- Selma to Montgomery marches
- Bill Boynton Jr. and, Bruce Carver Boynton
- Civil Rights Movement
Nov 29, 2015 · She also traveled to Washington, D.C. in 2015 to attend President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address where her life service was acknowledged. 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.
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Pres. Barack Obama greets pioneering civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson at the 50th-anniversary commemoration of the Selma to Montgomery march on March 8, 2015. Robinson, a home-demonstration agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Dallas County, was one of the primary organizers of the original event.
Mar 27, 2023 · People Civil Rights. Amelia Boynton Robinson Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911-2015) was a leading civil rights activist who played a key role in efforts that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and who was the first African American woman in Alabama to run for Congress.
Mar 7, 2015 · And because of men and women like John Lewis, Joseph Lowery, Hosea Williams, Amelia Boynton, Diane Nash, Ralph Abernathy, C.T. Vivian, Andrew Young, Fred Shuttlesworth, Dr. King, and so many...
Nov 5, 2020 · President Barack Obama greets former foot soldier Amelia Boynton Robinson, 103 years old, at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Ala., March 7, 2015. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) ( NAID 183897984)
