While many of the league’s members were dubious that any of them would show up, Amelia was there in her living room with Martin Luther King and James Bevel, along with organizers from the SCLC and SNCC, planning how to defeat segregation. There, they organized a march to the state capital in Montgomery to talk to Governor George Wallace about Jackson’s death, but of course, Wallace dispatched his club-toting troopers to the march that became known as Bloody Sunday. When officers cracked John Lewis’s skull on the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the demonstration, Amelia did not run. The viral
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