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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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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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.
Call Number:JK1929.A2 G58 2014
ISBN:9780817318178 (cloth)
0817318178 (cloth)