On This Day In Alabama History: Amelia Boynton Robinson Died

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

Amelia Boynton Robinson, a longtime civil rights activist who helped organize the aborted 1965 Selma to Montgomery march known as “Bloody Sunday,” died on this day at the age of 104. A native of Savannah, Georgia, Robinson later moved to Alabama and with her husband became active in voting rights and other causes in Selma during the 1930s. Having met the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1954, she invited him and other movement leaders to house the Selma headquarters of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in her home and office in 1964.

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