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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, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches.
Amelia Boynton Robinson (* 18. August 1911 in Savannah, Georgia; † 26. August 2015 in Montgomery, Alabama) war eine US-amerikanische Bürgerrechtlerin und galt als eine der einflussreichsten Persönlichkeiten der Bürgerrechtsbewegung (African-American Civil Rights Movement) sowie als eine der herausragenden Mitarbeiterinnen von ...
3. Apr. 2014 · Learn about Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who fought for voting rights and ran for Congress in Alabama. She was beaten at Bloody Sunday in 1965 and received the Martin Luther King Jr. Medal of Freedom in 1990.
29. Nov. 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.
4. Sept. 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.
27. Aug. 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...
26. Aug. 2015 · Learn about Amelia Boynton Robinson, a pioneer in the fight for voting rights and the first Black woman to run for Congress from Alabama. She was beaten at Bloody Sunday and honored by President Obama.
