Amelia Boynton Robinson

CTL-E-6067 · Person · other · 1911–2015

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Amelia Boynton Robinson, born Amelia Platts on 18 August 1911 in Savannah, Georgia, was a leading organizer of the Selma voting-rights campaign. Educated at Georgia State College and Tuskegee Institute, where she earned a home economics degree in 1927, she came to Selma as the U.S. Department of Agriculture's home demonstration agent for Dallas County. With her husband, Samuel Boynton, she spent decades registering Black voters and bringing federal programs to rural families. In 1964 she became the first African American woman in Alabama to run for Congress. She invited Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference to Selma, opened her office and home to the movement, and helped plan the 1965 marches. On Bloody Sunday, 7 March 1965, state troopers beat her unconscious on the Edmund Pettus Bridge; a photograph of her crumpled figure carried the Selma story worldwide, and she marched in the completed Selma to Montgomery march later that month. She received the Martin Luther King Jr. Freedom Medal in 1990. In March 2015 she crossed the Pettus Bridge hand in hand with President Barack Obama for the fiftieth anniversary. She died in Montgomery on 26 August 2015, aged 104.

The record

• Also known as: Amelia Boynton, Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 5 — 747 Program, Wave 11; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Amelia Boynton Robinson entity in the live graph at 3,763 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-6067 assigned at assembly. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1455 (Civil Rights Leaders list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — African American Selma voting-rights organizer; the Dallas County movement leader who brought SCLC to Selma and was beaten on Bloody Sunday. Vital status: DECEASED — died 26 August 2015, Montgomery, Alabama, aged 104 (BlackPast; Congressional Record tribute). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): Born 18 August 1911, Savannah, Georgia — some secondary listings (including the census-adjacent Famous Birthdays profile) give 1905; the record follows the Encyclopedia of Alabama, NPS and BlackPast, which agree on 1911 and on her age of 104 at death. First African American woman in Alabama to run for Congress, 1964 (Encyclopedia of Alabama, accessed 2026-10-16). MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Library of Congress photograph of Amelia Boynton Robinson after Bloody Sunday, 1965; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-temp-1455-amelia-boynton-robinson.svg); video HELD (Shorts Link Map checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short); audio HELD (no rights basis). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging.)

Relationships

• Selma to Montgomery Marches (1965) — initiated
  Boynton Robinson helped plan and lead the Selma to Montgomery Marches (CTL-E-5427): she invited King and SCLC to Selma, helped plan the 1965 marches, was beaten on Bloody Sunday, and marched in the completed march.
• Tuskegee University — affiliated with
  Boynton Robinson graduated from Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University, CTL-E-1491) with a home economics degree in 1927.

Sources

• Encyclopedia of Alabama, 'Amelia Boynton Robinson' — Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911–2015), a leading civil rights activist in the efforts that led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the first African American woman in Alabama to run for Congress; born 18 August 1911 in Savannah, Georgia; Tuskegee Institute graduate (1927); USDA home demonstration agent for Dallas County in Selma — https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/amelia-boynton-robinson/ (primary source · build store)
• U.S. National Park Service, 'Amelia Boynton Robinson' — she helped plan and lead the Selma to Montgomery marches; she was beaten on Bloody Sunday, took part in the completed march of 21–25 March 1965, received the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Medal in 1990, crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge with President Obama in 2015, and died in 2015 — https://home.nps.gov/people/amelia-boynton-robinson.htm (build store)
• BlackPast, 'Amelia Boynton Robinson (1911–2015)' (Susan Bragg, 2015) — she died on 26 August 2015, shortly after seeing her Bloody Sunday role depicted in the film Selma, and had been honored at President Obama's 2015 State of the Union address — https://blackpast.org/african-american-history/amelia-boynton-robinson-1911-2015/ (build store)

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