Happy 102nd Birthday to Dr. Amelia Boynton Robinson, Mother of the Voting Rights Movement

In the public eye, celebrating a day of a history maker, Dr. Amelia Boynton-Robinson102nd Birthday!! Happy Birthday to our Matriarch of the Voting Rights Movement, guiding the call with Dr. Bernard Lafayette to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to come to Selma and subsequently allowing the use of her and her husband's business and home to be SCLC Headquarters in Selma. Leading the way for the Voting Rights Act to be drafted on her table and later invited personally to the Voting Rights Act signing by President Lyndon B. Johnson. We salute a champion of rights; at 9, helping her mother pass out voter registration forms on the cobblestones of Savannah, registered to vote in her twenties and helped people to vote and learn how to leave sharecropping. The reason we have free lunch in schools today is the intentional influence of Dr. Amelia Boynton. The first Black Extension Agent, the first Black or Woman to run for Congress in Alabama. Mother Amelia attended the funeral of former Sheriff Jim Clarke who unleashed the peril of racism upon the people of Selma, also noted for spitting in Dr. C.T. Vivian's face. A leader's leader, Mother Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson is worthy of all the honor as our UnSung Voting Rights Act Chaplain of the Common Good.
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