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Amelia Robinson Launches Libel Suit Vs. ABC, Disney TV Click here for Full Issue of Fidelio Volume 8, Number 4, Winter 1999 Amelia Robinson Launches Libel Suit vs. ABC, ivil Rights leader Amelia Boynton CRobinson, who is vice chairman of the Schiller Institute, filed a libel suit in August against the American Broad- casting Corporation, Walt Disney Tele- vision, and other parties involved in the production of the Disney television movie “Selma, Lord, Selma,” which aired nationwide Jan. 17, 1999 on the “Wonderful World of Disney” pro- gram. The subject of the movie is the 1965 Civil Rights struggle in Selma, Alabama, in which Mrs. Robinson was a leading figure. It was she who invited Dr. Martin Luther King to come to Selma to help her and her husband, EIRNS/Stuart Lewis S.W. Boynton, lead the struggle for vot- Schiller Institute vice chairman Amelia Boynton Robinson (right) shares podium honors ing rights there. with Institute founder Helga Zepp LaRouche, September 1999. ‘This Is Not Me’ The body of the suit recounts Mrs. ments, and particularly her leading role Mrs. Robinson told Fidelio that she had Robinson’s numerous accomplishments in the Selma battle (recounted in her declined to participate in filming the and awards in her 88 years of life, most autobiography Bridge Across Jordan, movie because, after discussing the plans of them spent in service of the Civil published by the Schiller Institute), to with the actress assigned to play her Rights movement. Just with respect to the “Black mammy” stereotype with part, the daughter of Civil Rights leader voters’ rights, Mrs. Robinson has been which she is portrayed in the movie—a Hosea Williams, Mrs. Robinson real- secretary of the Southern Christian “person whose main function was to ized, “This is not me. I said, I don’t Leadership Conference, Political Action emit religious utterances and lead or want them to have me portrayed by any- chairman of the Alabama Association of participate in the singing of ‘freedom body and say it is me, and it’s nothing Women’s Clubs, secretary for Registra- songs.’ ” that I did.” tion and Voting for the Alabama Fourth After she saw the movie, she told her Congressional District Organization, Mis-Portrayal son, Selma attorney Bruce Boynton, that member of the Alabama Coordinating The suit has three counts: libel, wanton she thought the producers should be Committee for Registration and Voting, negligence, and false light/invasion of sued. He entered the suit as her attorney and member of the Dallas County Vot- privacy. in the Circuit Court for Dallas County, ers League. Besides mis-portraying Mrs. Robin- Alabama, on August 17. The suit contrasts her accomplish- son generally, perhaps the worst libel Courtesy of Amelia Boynton Robinson EIRNS/Stuart Lewis Mrs. Robinson is greeted by President Lyndon B. Johnson at the White Campaigning for the Schiller Institute’s program of economic House, following the official ceremony celebrating the signing of the development for the Balkans, Capitol lawn, Washington, D.C., 1965 Voting Rights Act. September 1991. 64 © 1999 Schiller Institute, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part without permission strictly prohibited. Disney TV Italy Conference of Christian Democrats was to portray her as an unregistered LaRouche: Ecumenical Doctrine voter who, in attempting to register, challenged the notorious racist Dallas County Sheriff Jim Clark over a poll test Needed To Meet Global Crisis that forced applicants to accurately count the number of jelly beans in a jar. he first national conference orga- ident of the D.C., opened the conference “This account was false and a total Tnized by the recently reestablished by calling to the floor Liliana Celani, misrepresentation of plaintiff,” the suit Christian Democratic Party of Sen. vice president of the Movimento Solida- charges. Mrs. Robinson had been a reg- Flaminio Piccoli, held November 27 in rietà, who read the message from istered voter since 1932 and was one of Bergamo, Italy, was opened with a mes- LaRouche: only 182 Black voters out of a popula- sage from U.S. Presidential candidate “The world as a whole is currently tion of 37,000 Black persons in Dallas Lyndon LaRouche. The conference, on gripped by the most deadly systemic County. “As was her usual practice,” the the subject of “The Social Doctrine of financial, political, and moral crisis of this suit continues, “Plaintiff was at the the Church,” was attended by 150 candi- century thus far,” wrote LaRouche, courthouse to serve as a person who dates and leaders of Italy’s re-established adding that no one can predict exactly could vouch for the persons seeking to Christian Democracy (D.C.), as well as how or when the present world financial become registered, because at that time an invited delegation of seven members system will collapse. “But,” he said, the person who vouched was required to and students of the LaRouche-allied “either an early reorganization of the sys- be a registered voter.” Movimento Solidarietà from Milan. tem in bankruptcy, or its collapse, is now Disney knew, through Defendant Senator Andreino Carrara, vice pres- Please turn to page 66 Julian Fowles, an executive producer of the film, that Mrs. Robinson was a regis- tered voter, and “intentionally distorted the fact,” according to the suit. Book Hails ‘American Sakharov’ ‘Bloody Sunday’ As to the infamous 1965 “Bloody Sun- day” march from Selma to Mont- gomery, in which Mrs. Robinson was tear-gassed, beaten, and left for dead by Alabama State Troopers on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, the movie por- trays her as participating in a songfest following the demonstration. In fact, she was severely injured and hospitalized, while the picture of her beating was sent around the world on television, helping to spark the international reaction that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act later that year, and its signing by Presi- dent Lyndon Johnson, with whom Mrs. Robinson met at the time. “To depict the plaintiff as such,” the EIRNS/Stuart Lewis suit charges, is a gross mischaracteriza- Dr. Josef Mikloˇsko, president of the Schiller Foundation in Slovakia, reads at Lyndon LaRouche’s tion of both her and the Selma Civil 75th birthday celebration. Miklosko’sˇ new book portrays LaRouche as “the American Sakharov.” Rights Movement, which received “sup- port and sympathy from persons and n Dec. 12, to celebrate the tenth (Since We Became Free). At the book’s organizations throughout this nation Oanniversary of the fall of commu- presentation in Bratislava, Slovakia, and the world.” nism in former Czechoslovakia, Josef attended by 500 guests, Mikloskoˇ was Mrs. Robinson told Fidelio that she Mikloˇsko, who was the Deputy Prime introduced by Slovakian Justice Minister believes the libel targetted her in part for Minister in the country’s first free gov- and chairman of the Christian Democ- her prominent work with Lyndon ernment, and is now president of the ratic Party Jan Carnogursky, and by LaRouche and the Schiller Institute Schiller Foundation in Slovakia, pre- Petr Miller, who had been Social Affairs today. sented his book Ako Sme Boli Slobodni Please turn to page 66 65.
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