SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Amelia Boynton Robinson

1911 - 2015

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Amelia Isadora Platts Boynton Robinson (August 18, 1905 – August 26, 2015) was an American activist who was a leader of the American Civil Rights Movement in Selma, Alabama, and a key figure in the 1965 Selma to Montgomery marches. In 1984, she became founding vice-president of the Schiller Institute, which was affiliated with Lyndon LaRouche, a far-right activist. She was awarded the Martin Luther King Jr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amelia Boynton Robinson has received more than 627,357 page views. Her biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Amelia Boynton Robinson is the 634th most popular social activist, the 11,351st most popular biography from United States and the 102nd most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Amelia Boynton Robinson ranks 634 out of 840Before her are Maxim Martsinkevich, Yolanda King, Iqbal Masih, Stanislav Markelov, Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane, and Razan Zaitouneh. After her are Marguerite Higgins, Chen Guangcheng, Lucy Burns, Elizaveta Glinka, Maggie Gobran, and Ashin Wirathu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Amelia Boynton Robinson ranks 382Before her are Tursunoy Saidazimova, Alf Martinsen, Sidney Wood, Sybille Bedford, Nino Borsari, and Hugh Marlowe. After her are Harry Golombek, Mitch Miller, Foy Draper, Jean Muir, Rudi Ball, and Vaughn Monroe. Among people deceased in 2015, Amelia Boynton Robinson ranks 462Before her are Josefa Francisco, Justin Wilson, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, Nek Chand, Eduardo Bonvallet, and Ernie Banks. After her are Marisa Del Frate, Hitoshi Saito, Robert La Caze, Jim Loscutoff, Brian Friel, and Bob Burns.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Amelia Boynton Robinson ranks 11,351 out of 20,380Before her are Beau Garrett (1982), Christina Hoff Sommers (1950), Robert Benchley (1889), Oscar Micheaux (1884), Billy Gonsalves (1908), and Joseph Pilato (1949). After her are Johnny Rebel (1938), Raphael Tracey (1904), Melissa Hill (1970), Hobart Bosworth (1867), John Bartram (1699), and Ross Alexander (1907).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Amelia Boynton Robinson ranks 102Before her are Mario Savio (1942), Rachel Corrie (1979), Betty Ong (1956), Frances Willard (1839), Mary McLeod Bethune (1875), and Yolanda King (1955). After her are Lucy Burns (1879), Angelina Grimké (1805), Phoebe Hearst (1842), Norma McCorvey (1947), Bobby Henderson (1980), and Derek Chauvin (1976).