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Come Join the LaRouche Youth Movement in a Dialogue with Amelia Boynton Robinson |
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Lyndon LaRouche and the LYM members listen to the 95-year-old civil rights heroine after LaRouche’s international Webcast. |
Friday February 16, 2007
6:30pm-9:30pm
First Baptist Church of Cambridge
5 Magazine St., Cambridge, MA 02139
(617) 350-0040
(Central Square T Stop, Red line)
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“I Joined the LaRouche Movement because I found it to be continuing the civil rights struggle, in the footsteps, as it were, of Martin Luther King... I have found this organization more able to carry out the program of Dr. Martin Luther King in the economic area than any other that I know…” -Amelia Boynton Robinson |
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Bloody Sunday, March 7 1965. Amelia Boynton, unconscious, after being beaten and gassed by Alabama State Troopers. |
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President Lyndon B. Johnson meets Amelia Boynton Robinson at the White House, following the signing of the Voting Rights Act, on Aug. 7, 1965, after a long hard struggle. |
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Change History by Inviting Amelia to Speak at your Organization. |
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“The roots of the Selma right to vote movement, which politically enfranchised the African-American people and advanced the cause of freedom and justice for all people, can be traced back to the seed planted by Amelia Boynton, when she began her voter registration work in 1929. Let me thank Amelia for allowing me to receive the freedom fruit from the tree she was wise and loving enough to plant.” -Rev. James Bevel Former director for Nonviolent Direct Action, SCLC former director of the Right to Vote Movement, Selma “I cannot remember when I didn't know Amelia Boynton Robinson. A remarkable, strong-willed, college-trained black woman who led a dedicated and dangerous civil rights struggle in Selma, Alabama many years before Martin Luther King Jr. King once told me Mrs. Robinson was a reason he came to Selma. She continued the struggle after King and the organization left. Her faith, courage, intelligence and devotion are extraordinary and the manner in which she used them say so much about the real America. This powerful book [Bridge Across Jordan] about her life should be required reading in the White House, the Congress and every school and college in America. The nation owes Amelia Boynton Robinson much.” -J.L. Chestnut, Jr. Author, Black in Selma “Over the past two decades, Amelia Boynton Robinson has inspired me with her humble simplicity and the complex manner in which she tells her story of the movement.” -Edith M. Savage Member of the Board for M.L.K. Jr. center for Nonviolent Social Change “Amelia is like my adopted Mother!” -Helga Zepp-LaRouche Wife of Political Economist Lyndon LaRouche |
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Paid for by the Lyndon LaRouche Political Action Committee |
