This bright light of ours : : stories from the Voting Rights fight / / Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin.
"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...
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| Superior document: | The modern South |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama : : University Alabama Press,, [2014] 2014 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modern South.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (328 pages) :; illustrations. |
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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"-- |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780817318178 (cloth) 9780817387389 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin. |