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AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON A BLACK TREASURE
It saddens me somewhat that I have lived the number of years I have and did not know of this Black treasure amongst us.
Amelia Boynton Robinson was the first woman black or white to run for Congress to run for Congress from
the state of Alabama, winning 10 percent of the vote at a time when only 5
percent of registered voters were African-American. Then, on what became
known as "Bloody Sunday", she was brutally beaten and left for dead by Alabama
state troopers as she and other African-Americans tried to cross the Edmund
Pettus Bridge to march on Montgomery.
percent of registered voters were African-American. Then, on what became
known as "Bloody Sunday", she was brutally beaten and left for dead by Alabama
state troopers as she and other African-Americans tried to cross the Edmund
Pettus Bridge to march on Montgomery.
This remarkable woman is still alive at age 99 years -Read more: http://shar.es/aNhqB
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