Amelia Boynton Robinson, whose fight for civil rights ... famous for her role in 1965’s Selma-to-Montgomery marches, when photos of her being beaten on the Edmund Pettus Bridge created national ...

Newswires flashed the shocking March 7, 1965, pictures of Mrs. Amelia Boynton across the globe. Every major newspaper and TV network carried them. And the message was loud and clear: This is what ...

She never became a household name, but the grainy photos of Amelia Boynton Robinson crumpled on the side of the road in Selma, Ala., after being tear-gassed and beaten by state troopers came to be ...

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 ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson died today in Alabama ... GASSIOTT: A photograph of her beaten unconscious became one of the iconic images of the attempted crossing of Edmund Pettus Bridge in March ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson, who led voting drives and ... Throughout the country, people were appalled at the graphic images of police violence on the day that became known as Bloody Sunday.

(The Christian Science Monitor) Amelia Boynton Robinson, a pivotal figure in the struggle for civil rights in Selma, Alabama—and whose picture, battered and left unconscious by police on the Edmund ...

Amelia Boynton Robinson, the 104-year-old matriarch ... being beaten unconscious by state troopers. SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images The story of the civil right movement in the United States is usually ...

She never became a household name but the grainy photos of Amelia Boynton Robinson crumpled on the side of the road in Selma, Alabama, after being tear-gassed and beaten by state troopers came to ...