Amelia Boynton Robinson was a pivotal voting rights activist in Selma, Alabama, who invited Martin Luther King Jr. and the SCLC to the city, directly leading to the historic 1965 Selma to Montgomery march.
Already a voting rights activist in Selma in the early 1960s, Robinson stood at the center of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, a watershed moment in the Civil Rights Movement. She asked Martin Luther King Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to come to the city to protest, resulting in the march. Her leadership and organizing efforts were crucial in advancing voting rights for African Americans in the Deep South.
