And the civil rights attorney Solomon Seay Jr. has died at the age of 81. Among many other cases, Seay fought desegregation and helped represent now-Congressmember John Lewis and the recently deceased civil rights leader Amelia Boynton in a successful battle to allow the Selma to Montgomery voting rights march to proceed peacefully after the marchers were attacked by Alabama state troopers on Bloody Sunday in 1965. Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, called Seay “the true hero of Alabama’s civil rights movement.”