Amelia Boynton
Amelia Boynton was a civil rights activist and one of the first African American women to run for Congress in Alabama. She is best known for her involvement in the Selma to Montgomery marches, where she was brutally beaten on Bloody Sunday, becoming a symbol of the struggle for voting rights and racial equality.
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Amelia Boynton, one of the organisers, was beaten unconscious during the march at the Edmund Pettus Bridge.
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Amelia Boynton was among those injured during the march, lying unconscious after being beaten by a trooper.
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