Amelia Boynton Robinson

Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. In 1984, she became founding VicePresident of the Schiller Institute affiliated with Lyndon LaRouche. She was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr., Freedom Medal in 1990. In 2014, actress Lorraine Toussaint played Robinson in the Ava DuVernay film Selma.

Amelia Platts was born in Savannah, Georgia on August 18, 1911 to George and Anna Platts, both of whom were AfricanAmerican. She also had Cherokee and German ancestry. Church was central to Amelia and her nine siblings upbringing. As a young girl, she became involved in campaigning for womens suffrage. Her family encouraged the children to read. Amelia attended two years at Georgia State College . She transferred to Tuskegee Institute , earning a degree in home economics.

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