103-Year-Old Civil Rights Icon: ‘Thank God I Learned That Color Makes No Difference’
Amelia Boynton Robinson was nearly beaten to death in 1965 during the first march in Selma, Alabama, led by Martin Luther King Jr. She was 53 years old at the…
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Watching ‘Selma’ with 103-year-old matriarch of the movement
A photograph immortalized the momenta black, middle-aged woman beaten unconscious by white state troopers in a 1965 civil rights march that became known as Bloody Sunday. Now, on this Sunday…