“We were the foot soldiers,” Davis said. Those experiences taught her that the struggle for voting rights was never just about casting a ballot. “I don’t think they do,” Thomas said when asked whether younger generations understand what civil rights foot soldiers endured. She believes thousands of ordinary people helped build the Civil Rights Movement, even if history rarely remembers their names. The post OP-ED: From Selma to South Los Angeles: An Unsung Voting Rights Foot Soldier Says the Fight Isn’t Over appeared first on BlackPressUSA.