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This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
- Title
- This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 voting rights fight / Maria Gitin.
- Author
- Gitin, Maria
- Publication
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 307 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- The modern South
- Uniform Title
- Modern South.
- Subjects
- Civil rights workers > Alabama > Biography
- African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States
- Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
- Civil rights movements > Southern States > History
- Voter registration > Southern States
- Gitin, Maria
- African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama
- Women civil rights workers > Alabama > Biography
- Alabama > Race relations
- Voter registration > Alabama
- Civil rights movements > Alabama > History
- Southern States > Race relations
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 14-576
- ISBN
- 9780817318178 (cloth)
- 0817318178 (cloth)
- LCCN
- 2013045587
- OCLC
- 844728474
- Author
- Gitin, Maria, author.
- Title
- This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 voting rights fight / Maria Gitin.
- Publisher
- Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- The modern SouthModern South.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 14-576IEC 14-5727