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Selma mourns death of a Voting Rights foot soldier

From the West Alabama Newsroom– The Selma voting rights foot soldier who walked across the historic Edmund Pettus Bridge with two U.S. Presidents — has passed away. George Sallie died last week at age 94. He was considered the oldest living foot soldier of the Selma Voting Rights Movement at the time of his death. “Mr. Sallie will be long…