Amelia Boynton will be turning 101 this month, still willing and able to teach and explain right and wrong.
Amelia is not only the woman who began helping people's voting
rights in the 1920s who later had the 1965 Voting Rights Act written at
her Alabama home -- she's also historically important to the many
American struggles for over 85 years towards civil, farmers, minorities
and poor people's rights.
Monuments will continue to be made in
her honor in metal and stone by future generations. But right now her
history making life needs to be known by we the living, for which
purpose a documentary film will greatly assist.
Amelia is the
woman who hosted the Selma marches' planning meetings and later was
injured by police abuse at the bridge. But long before the 1960s, she
was known nationally as a powerful organizer and leader of several long
and painful crusades. When she attended Tuskeegee Institute, she saw so
many social, educational and economic problems in Alabama, that she and
her equally dedicated husband Sam Boynton decided to stay there the
rest of their lives to help others. She is still living there today.
We must make this documentary film -- tentative tile "The Matriarch
of the Voting Rights Movement" -- while Amelia Boynton is still alive
and willing to provide her newest thoughts to go with the existing
historical images and ideas.
For further information about Amelia and about how you can participate in the project.
Feel free to contact Shawn Eckles at 704 450 0214.
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