WLRN Public Media | By Carlton Gillespie
Amelia Boynton was 50 years old when she marched for voting rights for African Americans in Selma, Alabama, in 1965. The insurance salesman was instrumental in establishing a group that registered Black residents to vote in Dallas County, which includes Selma.
As the march began, over the Edmund Pettus Bridge, police violently cracked down on the peaceful protestors in what would eventually be known as “Bloody Sunday.” A photograph of Boynton, laying on the ground unconscious, is among the 40 newly-enhanced photographs from that day now on display at the African American Research Library and Cultural Center in Fort Lauderdale.
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