Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was depicted by Lorraine Toussaint in the movie “Selma,” died on Wendesday. She was 104. Boynton Robinson suffered a stroke last month and was hospitalized in Montgomery, Alabama. Born in Georgia, the educator and eventual civil rights leader was a key figure in the Selma to Montgomery marches, which were covered extensively in the Ava DuVernay film. The first attempt to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge into the county became known as Bloody Sunday, as police halted the march and beat demonstrators. Boynton was rendered unconscious and a famous photograph of her lying on...
- 8/28/2015
- by Tony Maglio
- The Wrap
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