Thursday, August 27, 2015

Amelia Boynton Robinson, R. I. P.

The New York Times: Amelia Boynton Robinson, who was called the matriarch of the voting rights movement — and whose photograph, showing her beaten, gassed and left for dead in the epochal civil rights march known as Bloody Sunday, appeared in newspapers and magazines round the world in 1965 — died on Wednesday in Montgomery, Ala. She was 104.

Hat tip to Jeff Meyerson.

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