changing font color in footer

I'm finding it very difficult to write a CSS rule that will change all the footer text in the widgets from white to any other color. Adding extra weight to the selector also doesn't seem to help, even even overwriting individual rules with the exact same selector and adding !important isn't doing the trick. Here's what I'm trying to use:

.footer_container{color: black !important;}

 

Hello,

Paste the code given below in Custom CSS section
(Appearance -> Theme Options -> Styling Options -> Custom CSS) of your dashboard.

Code:

.footer .footer_widget h4 {
color: red;
}
.footer .footer_widget p, .footer .footer_widget a,.footer .footer_widget li,.footer .footer_widget span{
color: red;
} 

In place of "red" you can put your color or color code.
This will solve your issue.