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BuzzFeed News
April 1, 2018
John Lewis, his likeness floating above the words “GET IN THE WAY”; another dedicated to Amelia Boynton Robinson and Marie Foster, “MOTHERS OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT BEFORE AND BEYOND THE BRIDGE.” These monuments and others like them, presented by the Evelyn GibsonÃâà...
Selma Times-Journal
March 7, 2018
As Perkins walked around the room Wednesday afternoon he was humbled because photographs of civil rights giants like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. F.D. Reese, Amelia Boynton-Robinson and others also hang on the wall in that same room. “It's really humbling because I don't think about this kind ofÃâà...
AL.com
March 5, 2018
Amelia Boynton Robinson was beaten unconscious. The price these marchers paid awakened America's conscience to the violence of racism and laid the groundwork for passage of the Voting Rights Act, but on the day of their march, those victories must still have appeared distant on the horizon. Today, atÃâà...
Selma Times-Journal
February 28, 2018
Bruce Boynton and his wife Betty are opening a museum in honor of his mother, Amelia Boynton-Robinson for Jubilee. The museum, located on Water Avenue next to Organpi, is called the “Amelia Boynton Minute Museum.” Admission is $5 per person and includes photos, awards and other memorabiliaÃâà...
The Commercial Appeal
February 11, 2018
The historic victory of Doug Jones in Alabama's U.S. Senate race last year has rightly been attributed in large part to the black women voters of Alabama who once again led the fight for dignity and justice. This victory really began in the 1960's with a black woman from Selma named Amelia Boynton. By thatÃâà...
Afro American
January 4, 2018
In the aftermath of Doug Jones' stunning victory, Alabama stands once more where the south has stood since my time as a girl growing up during Jim Crow: at the crossroads between the country we are and the country we want to be. Through the defeat of Roy Moore, every day Alabamans from allÃâà...
HuffPost
August 18, 2017
Amelia Boynton Robinson at the start of the procession across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on March 7, 2015, the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday. Robinson, wearing blue, is holding President Barack Obama's left hand; John Lewis is holding Obama's right. Amelia Isadora Platts sunrise 8/18/1911Ãâà...
POLITICO Magazine
December 29, 2015
The image of Amelia Boynton Robinson knocked out cold by white troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in 1965, during the protest march from Selma to Montgomery, is one of the most frightening and iconic photos of the civil rights movement. It shows a mature woman, her coat and gloves reflecting aÃâà...
NPR
August 27, 2015
... Boynton Robinson lying beaten and unconscious in the street is credited with helping spur the passage of the Voting Rights Act. She described the experience to NPR in 2005. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED BROADCAST). AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON: They came from the left. They came from the right.
New York Times
August 26, 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 Bloody Sunday, appeared in newspapers and magazines round the world in 1965 — died onÃâà...
NPR
August 26, 2015
Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson has died. Her brutal beating during the 1965 Bloody Sunday march was depicted in the movie Selma. Amelia Boynton Robinson, Survivor Of 'Bloody Sunday,' Dies At 104 Ãâ÷ The Two-Way Ãâ÷ Amelia Boynton Robinson, Survivor Of 'Bloody Sunday,' Dies At 104.
