Thirty Years Before the Cameras Came

Long before television crews descended on Selma, Alabama, Amelia Boynton Robinson had been walking. Since the 1930s, she had gone door to door across Dallas County, helping Black residents attempt to register to vote, knowing most would be turned away by rigged literacy tests and poll taxes. For three decades, she persisted in near obscurity. On March 7, 1965, Boynton Robinson marched with six hundred others across the Edmund Pettus Bridge.…