When I think about what we can learn from the Selma marches, the single most important advice I give is to listen to others.
Amelia Boynton Robinson, born in Savannah, Ga. is a civil rights icon who impacted the lives of people across the nation. She earned a degree in home economics at Tuskegee University and was ...
Sixty years ago, civil rights leaders and nonviolent activists tried to march from Selma to Montgomery in the fight for the ...
Lewis' head was cracked open. Local activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was bludgeoned. Dozens were injured. And later two white ...
Decades after law officers attacked voting rights marchers, we revisit the event that helped spark passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act and hear what civil rights activists are doing in Selma today.
Lewis' head was cracked open. Local activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was bludgeoned. Dozens were injured. And later two white civil rights activists who came to Alabama to support the marchers ...
In that group was Amelia Boynton Robinson. She was a leading march organizer, working directly with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Her photo ...
They fed, protected and housed activists who traveled to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to demonstrate for voting rights.
UNIDENTIFIED CROWD: (Screaming). ELLIOTT: Lewis' head was cracked open. Local activist Amelia Boynton Robinson was bludgeoned. News coverage of the violence that day reverberated around the world ...
“People like Amelia Boynton (Robinson) recognized their constitutional rights were being violated,” Black said. “Their ability to move up in society – whether it meant running for local ...