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 ...

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 ...

In another photo, a young man cradles her body in his arms. Amelia Boynton Robinson, the woman in those photos, had helped galvanize hundreds of activists to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge on ...

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 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, a pivotal figure in the struggle for civil rights in Selma, Alabama—and whose picture, battered and left unconscious by police on the Edmund ...

In another photo, a man cradles her body. The woman in those photos — Amelia Boynton Robinson, then Amelia Boynton — had helped inspire hundreds of activists to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge ...

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 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 ...