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
Uniform Title:Modern South.
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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