Amelia Boynton Robinson, civil rights activist and survivor of Bloody Sunday, died at age 104 early Wednesday morning, around 2:20 a.m., according to Fox News.
Relatives say that Boynton Robinson had been living in Tuskegee before she was moved to a Montgomery hospitalized in July following a major stroke.
She will be remembered for her many efforts in the fight for equality.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, her activism began as early as age nine, when she would accompany her mother in horse and buggy delivering information about the Women's Suffrage Movement, according to the LA Times.
Later on, Boynton Robinson helped galvanize hundreds of activists to cross the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma, Alabama, on March 7, 1965, and went on to become the the first black woman to run for Congress in Alabama.
Alabama Rep. Terri Sewell, the first African-American woman to be elected, said that Robinson paved the way for her to be elected congresswoman.
"Mrs. Boynton Robinson suffered grave injustices on the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma at the hands of state troopers on Bloody Sunday, yet she refused to be intimidated," said Sewell. "She marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, my colleague Rep. John Lewis and thousands of others from Selma to Montgomery and ultimately witnessed the day when their work led to the passage of the historic Voting Rights Act of 1965."
Before she died, Boynton Robinson was able to be pushed by wheelchair across the bridge alongside President Obama for the 50th anniversary of the march in Selma, according to NPR.
Robinson's family said in a written statement that she was surrounded by relatives and friends when she passed.
