This bright light of ours [electronic resource] : 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:
Gitin, Maria.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.)
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 .
Southern States > Race relations.
Alabama > Race relations.
Genre:
Biography.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2014 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
History Reference eBook Collection: 2014 (EBSCO)
EBSCO eBooks: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Academic Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
eBook Public Library Collection (EBSCOhost) – North America: 2014 (EBSCO)
Variant Title:
This Bright Light of Ours: Stories From the Voting Rights Fight
Format: Electronic eBook
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Summary:
"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 first-person experience of Maria Gitin, an idealistic 18-year-old college freshman from San Francisco who felt called to action when she viewed televised images of the brutal treatment of peaceful demonstrators during what became known as Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
ISBN:9780817387389 (online)