Reply #43: INTERVIEW: AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON [View All]

This interview appears in the March 18, 2005 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.

INTERVIEW: AMELIA BOYNTON ROBINSON

`A Vote-Less People Is a Hopeless People'

Mrs. Robinson, a fighter for civil rights for nearly a century, is Vice Chairwoman of the Schiller Institute in the United States.

Katherine Notley interviewed her on Feb. 15, shortly before Mrs. Robinson returned to Selma, Alabama to celebrate the 40th anniversary of a keystone battle for the right to vote—the 1965 Selma to Montgomery march, which had its baptism by fire on Bloody Sunday, March 7, 1965.

She and her late husband S.W. Boynton had been fighting for voting rights for 30 years in Dallas County, Alabama, before the Selma march. Mrs. Robinson's autobiography is titled Bridge Across Jordan.

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EIR: Like Kenneth Blackwell, the state registrar in Ohio.

Robinson: Yes! It's the same thing: He's a Jim Clark and he's a George Wallace!

EIR: And he's the one that certified the election in Ohio. And he would not hold the position he has, if you had not fought for the right to vote—that's the horrible irony.

Robinson: And yet he's there trying to keep other people from voting? I can't understand that. I'd like to talk to him! I'd really like to talk to him.

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