Amelia Boynton Robinson & Marie Foster -- Civil Rights Memorial Park, Selma AL
N 32° 24.183 W 087° 01.010
16S E 498416 N 3585113
A polished black granite memorial to civil rights icons Amelia Boynton Robinson & Marie Foster at Civil Rights Memorial Park, just over the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma AL
Waymark Code: WMWG75
Location: Alabama, United States
Date Posted: 08/31/2017
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Selma Civil Rights park is located at the east side of tre Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, the place where peaceful African American civil rights marchers were met with force by armed while AL State Troopers and beaten on Bloody Sunday, 7 Mar 1965.
There are 4 separate memorials here. The waymarked memorial is dedicated to Amelia Boynton Robinson & Marie Foster, and reads as follows:
"Honoring
Amelia Boynton Robinson
Marie Foster
The Selma- Montgomery March
"Bloody Sunday" March 7, 1965
[Bronze likenesses]
Mothers of the Civil Rights Movement
Before and Beyond the Bridge
'Didn't let nothing turn them around'
Presented by SCLC/ W.O.M.E.N. Inc.
Women's Organizational Movement for Equality Now
EVELYN G. LOWERY, FOUNDER/CHAIR
March 6, 2005"
Civil Right Type: Race (includes U.S. Civil Rights movement)
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