Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, icon of 'Bloody Sunday' march, dies at 104
Source: AL.com
Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was brutally beaten during the "Bloody Sunday" march in 1965, has died. She was 104.
She had suffered a stroke earlier this year and been hospitalized at Nolan Hospital in Montgomery since July 10. She died this morning at 2:21 a.m., said her niece, Germaine Bowser, whom Robinson raised as her daughter.
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Amelia Boynton Robinson, a civil rights activist who nearly died while helping lead the 1965 Selma march on "Bloody Sunday," championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, has died. She was 104.
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Robinson invited Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. to participate in a voting rights march in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. She was badly beaten and gassed during the march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on what became known as "Bloody Sunday."
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Rest with Angels.
What an impressive life and legacy!
