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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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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