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

"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
Uniform Title:Modern South.
Main Author: Gitin, Maria
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.
Series:Modern South.
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Physical Description:xvi, 307 pages : illustrations.
Format: Book

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