The Ashes of Amelia Boynton Robinson Sprinkled in the Alabama River
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From the West Alabama Newsroom– The ashes of voting rights icon Amelia Boynton-Robinson were sprinkled into the Alabama River at a home-going celebration held in her honor Tuesday afternoon in Selma.
About a hundred people met at Brown Chapel Church and marched to the Edmund Pettus Bridge where they were met by about a hundred more.
The group walked across the bridge and held a memorial service in Civil Rights Memorial Park.
Boynton Robinson’s ashes were then taken down to the river bank under the Edmund Pettus Bridge and scattered in the Alabama River.
Boynton Robinson is considered by many to be the Mother of the Voting Rights Movement.
“Mrs. Amelia Boynton Robinson and her husband laid the groundwork for the Voting Rights Movement here in Selma. Without her and Sam Boynton, there would have been no voting rights movement.
