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Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is a leader in the movement of Lyndon LaRouche and was a figure in the American Civil Rights Movement. Born in Georgia in 1911, she became involved as a young woman in campaigning for women's suffrage. During the 1960s, Mrs. Robinson's home and office in Selma, Alabama became the center of Selma's civil rights battles, used by Dr. Martin Luther King and his lieutenants, by Congressmen and attorneys from around the nation, to plan the demonstrations that would lead eventually to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. She was beaten nearly to death by Alabama State Troopers during what became known as Bloody Sunday. However, she survived, and was present as President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act into law.

In 1964, she was the first female African-American ever to seek a seat in Congress from Alabama, and the first woman of any race to run on the Democratic ticket in the state.

Amelia Robinson today is a leading member and Vice Chairman of the Schiller Institute, founded by Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp LaRouche in 1984. Mrs. Robinson considers the Institute to be “following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King,” according to the Schiller Institute website.

External links

• Amelia Boynton Robinson Biography from the Schiller Institute
• New York Times article on Bloody Sunday from VoteRights.org

• 1911 births
• U.S. civil rights history