Marie Priscilla (Martin) Foster (1917 - 2003)

Born 24 Oct 1917 in Wilcox County, Alabama, United States

Died 3 Sep 2003 at age 85 in Selma, Dallas County, Alabama, United States

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Biography

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Marie Priscilla Martin Foster was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. during the 1960s. She was instrumental in helping to register many African-American voters in Selma, Alabama, and was one of the primary local organizers of the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965.^[1]

Research notes

Possibly daughter of Squire and Virginia (Pettway) Martin?^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Wikipedia contributors, "Marie Foster," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marie_Foster&oldid=993579660 (accessed January 6, 2021).
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:3FQ1-PPZ : accessed 6 January 2021), Squire Martin, Selma, Dallas, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 38, sheet 6A, line 20, family 122, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 14; FHL microfilm 2,339,749.

• "United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QK71-GCN3 : accessed 6 January 2021), Marie Priscilla Martin Foster, Meriden, Connecticut, United States, 14 Sep 2003; from "Recent Newspaper Obituaries (1977 - Today)," database, GenealogyBank.com (http://www.genealogybank.com : 2014); citing Record-Journal, born-digital text.