Marie Foster, civil rights activist
Foster was among voting rights marchers beaten and turned back by sheriff's deputies and state troopers on March 7, 1965, which became known as 'Bloody Sunday.' The beatings were shown nationwide on television and in newspapers, turning the focus of the civil rights movement on Selma.
Despite swollen knees from the beating, Foster took part in a later march to Montgomery led by Martin Luther King Jr. In its wake, Congress passed the Voting Rights Act of 1965, removing obstacles set up by white segregationists to deny the ballot to many blacks.
�obit. Newsday/AP September 11 2003