Bruised Knees and Unbroken Faith

On March 7, 1965, Amelia Boynton Robinson walked toward the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, alongside six hundred marchers demanding their right to vote. She was fifty-three years old. State troopers charged with tear gas and billy clubs. Boynton Robinson was beaten unconscious on that bridge. The photograph of her crumpled body was published in newspapers around the world.…