What do you know about Amelia Boyton Robinson?

Question

She gave me a hug and offered me literature. African American sisters confront obesity...best day ever.

Answer 1

we went to different schools at different times together.

Answer 2

Amelia Robinson Tour Prepares High Schoolers
To Be Historic Individuals
by Erin W. Smith, LaRouche Youth Movement
BALTIMORE, Feb. 26 (EIRNS)--

“Go where the young people are!” However, in the sparsely populated areas of Maryland, that request is not always an easy one to fulfill. Due to the low population density in the U.S.A.; due to the Boomer generation being suckered into the lie of “overpopulation,” and their selfish aspirations to produce a “no-future generation” (their children, if they had any); the LaRouche Youth Movement must extent the boundaries of their creative deployments to fulfill the task. A LYM member who is a native Baltimorean, thought it would be wonderful if civil rights heroine Amelia Boynton Robinson could come to talk to some of the high schools in the Baltimore area, to give students a real sense of what is going on in the “real world.”

Amelia had the honor of addressing two high schools (this is all that time allowed, because of her busy schedule). The schools that responded in time, were surprised and genuinely honored that Amelia would allow the time to organize the students and tell the truth about the civil rights movement. The atmosphere was that the students were ready and anxiously waiting for her arrival. During the two-day tour, Amelia guided approximately 400 eager, bright, curious, playful, but mostly hungry high-school students through the journey from Montgomery to Selma, Alabama (Bloody Sunday, 1965).

'Fountain of Youth'
The youth were awestruck at the sight of a cognitive black woman who is almost 100 years old. A woman along with Lyndon LaRouche, who has the weapon to fight senility, and that is, to “fight the political fight on the highest level,” the realm of ideas; this is the real “fountain of youth.” The students, under a quiet veil of composure, were elated at the thought of having “real live” history in front of them.

During the course of each section, the students and many teachers barraged Amelia with a myriad of questions: “What was Dr. King like personally?” “Did you ever run into the KKK?” and, “How did Martin become known back then?” Each one of these questions was interesting, not necessarily from the standpoint of the content, because they were the usual questions, but from the standpoint of the current political matrix in which Amelia places them.

At one of the schools, a teacher who should be in the youth movement due to her age, 25, commented on the side that “The students were a little confused about the stuff surrounding Iraq and Bush.” The LYM from Baltimore saw this as an opportunity to organize the teacher around the paradigm-shift of the Boomer generation, and why people are taught to think about history. Further, being a history teacher, she agreed that many people are taught to think about history from the viewpoint of what has happened, instead of what is happening--thus making history dead!

The 'Forgotten Man'
At the other school, the teachers were just as elated to see Amelia as the students were. One teacher asked Amelia, “What President do you think did the most for black people?” She answered, “Roosevelt.” The teacher's smile reached her ears, as she professed that her 80-year-old mother says the same thing.

After Amelia spoke, students had the opportunity to see if she was real, by talking with her and shaking her hand. On this day, Amelia Boyton Robinson generated a spark into the minds and hearts of not only the students at these schools, but also the teachers. She made it clear that it was the “Forgotten Man” that gave their all (cashing in insurance policies, etc.) to finance and staff the civil rights movement, emphasizing that it was the young people who were the first fighters in the civil rights movement, and it was only afterwards that the adults followed.

In the process of entangling the students' imaginations in the geometry of the United States of America during the 1960s, it was clear that Mrs. Robinson was challenging the short-lived identities of these high-school seniors.

Answer 3

She gave YOU a hug and offered YOU literature. African American sisters confront obesity ...YOUR best day ever!
...that's about all I know about Ms Robinson!

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Boynton_Robinson
Amelia Platts Boynton Robinson (born August 18, 1911) was a figure in the American Civil Rights Movement and later became a leader in the Schiller Institute founded by Lyndon LaRouche.

Born in Georgia, she became involved as a young woman in campaigning for women's suffrage. She and her husband, Bill Boynton, knew George Washington Carver at the Tuskegee Institute. In 1934 she registered to vote, a privilege which later became a right. A few years later she wrote a play, "Through the Years", which told the story of creation of Spiritual music, in order to help fund a community center in Selma, Alabama. The Robinsons met Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King in 1954 at the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama, where King was the pastor.

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/biographys/bio_amelia_new.html
Amelia Robinson was born in 1911 in Georgia, in a family of 10 children. Her father was a building contractor. She traces her history on both sides back to a mixture of African slaves, Cherokee Indians, and German and other European nobility.

The account of the life of this remarkable woman is given in the“Bridge Across Jordan,” published by the Schiller Institute in July1991. “Bridge Across Jordan” is the account of Mrs. Robinson's life-long struggle for civil rights and human rights for citizens of all colors.Amelia Boynton Robinson is perhaps best known as the woman at the front of the march who was gassed, beaten, and left for dead on Edmund Pettus Bridge, during the “Bloody Sunday” march on March 7, 1965 to Montgomery, Alabama, which quickly led to the mushrooming of the civil rights movement into an international mass movement.

But Amelia Robinson's efforts for justice and civil rights began long before 1965. From the1930s, she and her husband, S.W. Boynton, fought for voting rights and property ownership for African-Americans in the poorest rural areas of Alabama, where she worked as Home Demonstration Agent for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and he as County Agent. Bill Boynton gave his life for this cause, dying young of a heart attack induced by the years of hard labor and harassment his work brought on.

During the 1960s, Mrs. Robinson's home and office became the center of Selma's civil rights battles, used by Dr. King and his lieutenants, by Congressmen and attorneys from around the nation, to plan the demonstrations that would lead eventually to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In 1964, she was the first female African-American ever to seek a seat in Congress from Alabama, and the first woman, white or black, to run on the Democratic ticket in the state.

Amelia Robinson today is a leading member and Vice Chairman of the Schiller Institute, founded by Lyndon LaRouche and Helga Zepp-LaRouche in 1984. Mrs. Robinson considers the Institute to be“following in the footsteps of Martin Luther King.”

In April-May of 1990, Mrs. Robinson spent five weeks touring East and West Germany for the Schiller Institute, where she addressed thousands of German citizens about the Lessons of the Martin Luther King movement for Germany today.

On July 21, 1990, Mrs. Robinson was awarded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Freedom Medal, honoring her lifelong commitment to human rights and civil rights.

Today, in her 90s, Mrs. Robinson is a vibrant leader, touring the nation and the world, speaking for the Schiller Institute on behalf of the principles of civil rights and human rights whose cause she has championed for more than five decades.

Answer 5

http://www.schillerinstitute.org/biographys/bio_amelia_new.html

Answer 6

wow! I didn't know anything her until now.

Answer 7

Actually nothing but thanks for the 2 points!