WELL, THIS MONTH, WVTM 13 PROJECT COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES ALABAMIANS WHO BROKE BARRIERS AND RAISED THE BAR FOR EVERYONE. ONE OF THOSE EXTRAORDINARY PEOPLE, AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON. NOW YOU’RE LOOKING AT ...

Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson 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 ...

Did you know Martin Luther King Jr. was invited to Selma by Amelia Boynton Robinson, who had been organizing locally for justice decades before his arrival in the 1960s? Learn more about this ...

Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson is being remembered as a fearless leader whose tireless dedication to equal rights helped lead to the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

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 memorabilia from her work in civil ...

This victory really began in the 1960's with a black woman from Selma named Amelia Boynton. By that time she ... in parts of the South when news photos showed the country the terrible beatings ...

The image of Amelia Boynton Robinson knocked out cold by white ... is one of the most frightening and iconic photos of the civil rights movement. It shows a mature woman, her coat and gloves ...

(The Christian Science Monitor) Amelia Boynton Robinson, one of the organizers of the first march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, died August 26 in Montgomery. She was 104. Selma became a ...

SELMA, Ala. (AP) - A weekend of remembrances is being planned for the late civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson of Selma. Boynton Robinson will lie in state at a church in Selma on ...

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