Savannah, Georgia (August 18, 1911 – August 26. 2015) age 104 yrs

Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson was an American activist. She was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama. She was also a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. Robinson attended two years at Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth (now Savannah State University, a historically black college). She transferred to Tuskegee Institute, earning a degree in home economics in 1927. In late 1964 and early 1965, Boynton worked with Martin Luther King Jr. She collaborated with Diane Nash. James Bevel also participated. They all were part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, planning demonstrations for civil and voting rights. In early 1965, Amelia Boynton helped organize a march to Montgomery. This was initiated by James Bevel. The march took place on March 7, 1965. John Lewis, Hosea Williams, Bob Mants led the march alongside Rosa Parks and other marchers. The event became known as Bloody Sunday. County and state police stopped the march and beat demonstrators after they crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge into Dallas County. Boynton was beaten unconscious; a photograph of her lying on Edmund Pettus Bridge went around the world.