Amelia boynton robinson
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Amelia Boynton Robinson was a leading civil rights activist born in 1911 in Georgia. She became involved in women's suffrage and was one of the few registered Black voters in Alabama in the 1930s. In the 1960s, Robinson helped lead the Selma to Montgomery voting rights marches, including Bloody Sunday in 1965 where she was beaten unconscious while protesting for Black voting rights. She continued advocating for civil rights and human rights throughout her life.
Amelia boynton robinson
- 1. Amelia Boynton RobinsonChelsea Brooking
- 2. You Don’t Live Forever);born on August 18, 1911 in Savannah, Georgia
- 3. We Are All Known For Something(;In 1930, while working as a home economics teacher in the rural southIn 1936, Robinson wrote a play entitled Through the Years, to raise money for a community center that would be open to African Americans in a then-racially segregated Selma, Alabama.On February 29, 1964, Robinson became the first African American woman ever to seek a seat in Congress from AlabamaIn 1965, Robinson was one of the civil rights leaders that led the famous first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge which resulted in that day being called Bloody Sunday. Robinson was gassed and beaten, and a wire photo of her left for dead on Edmund Pettus Bridge, went around the world and helped to spark the outpouring of support for the Civil Rights Movement.
- 4. On Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton helped lead the famous first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge, The march was broken up when ...GOODMOVEMENTSAmelia Boynton Robinson (1911- ) is a leading civil rights activist who played a key role in efforts that led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. By 1964, the civil rights movement had gained momentum, and Robinson was at the forefront of the effort in Selma, despite the death of her husband the previous year. With violence and human rights abuses against African Americans escalating in Dallas County, Robinson and other members of the DCVL invited King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to Selma to help secure the right to vote for African AmericansOne of them, held March 7, 1965, became known as Bloody Sunday. Robinson was among the marchers tear-gassed and beaten by Alabama State Troopers. The horror of that event helped lead to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Robinson was a guest of honor when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.In the 1960’s, the war against human and civil rights violations had at its forefront the formidable presence of men like Dr. King, Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and many others. Decades before this, a young colored girl named Amelia Platts, born in Savannah, Georgia, rode in a buggy with her mother handing out voter registration cards and encouraging colored women to vote. The year was 1920.
- 5. Civil rights pioneer Amelia Boynton Robinson was born on August 18, 1911 in Savannah, Georgia. As a young lady, Robinson became very active in women's suffrage. In1934, at the age of twenty-three, Robinson became one of the few registered African American voters. In an era where literacy tests were used to discriminate against African Americans seeking to vote, Robinson used her status as a registered voter to assist other African American applicants to become registered voters. In 1930, while working as a home economics teacher in the rural south, Robinson became re-acquainted with Sam William Boynton, an extension agent for the county who she met while studying at Tuskegee Institute. They would marry and work together to bring education, a higher standard of living and voting rights to the African American poor, most of whom worked as sharecroppers. In 1936, Robinson wrote a play entitled Through the Years, to raise money for a community center that would be open to African Americans in a then-racially segregated Selma, Alabama. Through the Years tells the story of Robert Smalls (one of Robinson's ancestors), through the character of Joshua Terrell, a slave, who gains his freedom and goes on to serve in the U.S. Congress. On February 29, 1964, Robinson became the first African American woman ever to seek a seat in Congress from Alabama. She was also the first woman to run for this office in the state, winning ten percent of the vote when only five percent of the registered voters were African American. In 1965, Robinson was one of the civil rights leaders that led the famous first march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge which resulted in that day being called Bloody Sunday. Robinson was gassed and beaten, and a wire photo of her left for dead on Edmund Pettus Bridge, went around the world and helped to spark the outpouring of support for the Civil Rights Movement. Robinson was introduced to the LaRouche Movement in 1983, and a year later, she became a board member and then vice-chairperson of the Schiller Institute. The Schiller Institute was founded to defend the rights of all humanity. The Schiller Institute published her book Bridges over Jordan in 1991. In 1992, Robinson co-founded the International Civil Rights Solidarity Movement, and has received worldwide recognition for her sincere service to humanity. She was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Foundation Medal of Freedom in 1990; the National Visionary Leadership Award in 2003; and in 2005, Robinson and her deceased husband, Sam Boynton, were honored on the Fortieth Anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma. Robinson was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on September 4, 2007. Biography
- 6. Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911- ) is a leading civil rights activist who played a key role in efforts that led to passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. She is best known for her work in Selma, Alabama, where she helped Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. establish his headquarters and helped plan and lead the march from Selma to Montgomery that came to be known as "Bloody Sunday." She continues to work for civil and human rights with the Washington, D.C.-based Schiller Institute.One of 10 children, Robinson was born August 18, 1911, in Savannah, Georgia. Both her mother and father were of African, German, and Native American descent. Robinson's father, George Platts, was born in Brunson, South Carolina, in 1866, and her mother, Anna Eliza Hicks Platts, was born in 1874 in Beaufort, South Carolina. In her autobiography, Robinson describes her family life as "sheltered," an environment where church and biblical teachings were emphasizedRobinson started her college education at Georgia State College (now Savannah State) and after two years transferred and graduated from Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), in Tuskegee, Alabama, earning a degree in home economics. (She later studied at Tennessee State, Virginia State, and Temple University.) She had two teaching jobs in Georgia before she took a position with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Selma as the home demonstration agent for Dallas County. Robinson educated the county's rural population about food production, nutrition, healthcare, and other subjects related to agriculture and homemaking. While in Selma, Robinson met Samuel William Boynton, the county extension agent, in 1930. She shared Robinson's passion for improving the lives of their African American neighbors, many of whom still worked on white-owned plantations as sharecroppers. Robinson and Boynton married in 1936 and had two sons, Bill Jr. and Bruce Carver, whose godfather was family friend George Washington Carver, the famed inventor and head of Tuskegee's school of agriculture. The couple would work side by side for more than 30 years to bring voting rights, property ownership, and education to African Americans in poor, rural areas of Alabama. Lets Get personal!
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