Long before Dr. King came to Selma, Black women like Amelia Boynton Robinson, Diane Nash and Marie Foster registered, and educated Black voters.
“They came from the right, the left, the front and started beating people," she told the official magazine of the NAACP, in 2005. “The second time I was hit at the base of my neck. I fell unconscious. I woke up in a hospital.”
Boynton Robinson's mother was a suffragist and she grew up in a"culture of justice," according to Faya Rose Touré, a fellow activist and lawyer. She said Boynton Robinson and her husband Sam, also a voting rights advocate, came to Selma in the 1920s where they started their own insurance business. "Mrs. Boynton really was the organizer of this and I think the person who actually wrote the letter that invited Dr. King and SCLC to come to Selma to help them with the voting rights movement," Dawson said.
"We made a conscious choice, no matter how long it took, to work on getting the right to vote. So, the right to vote, the Selma movement, was a direct result of the little girls getting killed," Nash told Bell."I think getting the right to vote was the best that we could do."Olson said Nash, who also co-led the Alabama Voting Rights Project, led the charge for voting rights in Selma alongside Boynton Robinson.
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