RIP to an amazing being. Amelia Boynton Robinson nearly died from the beating she sustained during the voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma Alabama in 1965. Her activist life included a run for Congress in Alabama as the first Black woman to seek that office.
She has died at the age of 104, in Montgomery Alabama, after being hospitalized there on July 18.
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Boynton Robinson had asked Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Selma to mobilize the local community in the civil rights movement. She worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped plan the Selma to Montgomery march. She was invited as a guest of honor to attend the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Her role in the event was reprised in the movie "Selma," where she was portrayed by actress Lorraine Toussaint.
Someone to look up to, honor, emulate, and thank. Her life stands in contrast to some of the uglier human stories we're seeing now.
Thank you, Amelia Boynton Robinson, for your life.
Who Was Amelia Boynton Robinson? RIP
She has died at the age of 104, in Montgomery Alabama, after being hospitalized there on July 18.
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Boynton Robinson had asked Martin Luther King Jr. to come to Selma to mobilize the local community in the civil rights movement. She worked with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and helped plan the Selma to Montgomery march. She was invited as a guest of honor to attend the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 by President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Her role in the event was reprised in the movie "Selma," where she was portrayed by actress Lorraine Toussaint.
Thank you, Amelia Boynton Robinson, for your life.
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