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 ...

Civil rights leader Amelia Boynton Robinson died this week (August ... and the widely published images of her being beaten by Alabama State troopers are considered a catalyst in the passage ...

Explore them here. In a lively routine, Monitor photographers and editors sift options each morning for the Viewfinder images that you see at the bottom of your Daily. It’s about balancing ...

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, 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, a matriarch of the civil rights movement immortalized in a photograph taken on Bloody Sunday, has died. Boynton Robinson suffered a stroke last month and had been ...