"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."
Read the story in the
New York Times
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