This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 Voting Rights fight / Maria Gitin.

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"This Bright Light of Ours combines a memoir with oral history to create a very vivid portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965 in Wilcox County, Alabama, when volunteers and long-standing local black leaders were shaking the cultural norms, registering thousands of new voters. This book documents the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Gitin, Maria
Language:	English
Published:	Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.
Series:	Modern South.
Subjects:	African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States. African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama. Voter registration > Southern States. Voter registration > Alabama. Civil rights workers > California > Biography. Civil rights movements > Alabama > History. Civil rights movements > Southern States > History. HISTORY / United States / 20th Century. HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV) Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.) Gitin, Maria. Southern States > Race relations. Alabama > Race relations.
Genre:	Biography.
Physical Description:	xvi, 307 pages : illustrations.
Format:	Book

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