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Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
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 became...
Nov 29, 2015 · Although mostly known for widely-publicized photographs that depicted her assault during the 1965 Bloody Sunday civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson lived a long life of civil rights activism in both Georgia and Alabama.
Sep 4, 2007 · Learn about the life and achievements of Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights pioneer who ran for Congress, led the first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, and co-founded the International Civil Rights Solidarity Movement. Explore her interview and digital archive at The HistoryMakers.
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 known as...
Feb 1, 2021 · Amelia Boynton Robinson. 1911-2015. Her beating helped galvanize the civil rights movement. She lay sprawled unconscious in the road, beaten and gassed by Alabama state troopers. A White...
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.
