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This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 Voting Rights fight

Gitin, Maria. (Author).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780817318178 (cloth)
  • Physical Description: xvi, 307 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.

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Subject: African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama.
Voter registration > Southern States.
Voter registration > Alabama.
Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Gitin, Maria.
Civil rights workers > California > Biography.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > History.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History .
Southern States > Race relations.
Alabama > Race relations.
HISTORY / United States / 20th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV).

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at State Library of Alabama.

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