Civil rights activist, Amelia Boynton Robinson dies at 104

Civil rights activist Amelia Boynton Robinson, who nearly died while helping lead the 'Bloody Sunday' civil rights march in 1965, championed voting rights for blacks and was the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama, has passed away on Wednesday morning in Montgomery, Alabama. She was 104.

Her daughter, Germaine Bowser, confirmed to Troy Public Radio's Kyle Gassiott that Boynton Robinson died early Wednesday morning. She had been hospitalized after suffering several strokes this summer.

She was among those beaten during the voting rights march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 that became known as 'Bloody Sunday.'

''I have been called rabble-rouser, agitator,'' Boynton Robinson said in 1992. ''But because of my fighting, I was able to hand to the entire country the right for people to vote.''