Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.

My Freedom Summer, 1965. The Call to Action -- The Journey Begins -- The Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight -- Welcome to Wilcox County -- They Were Ready for Us -- Selma and SNCC -- Out in the Field -- Things Heat Up -- The Terror Continues -- A Brief Reprieve -- Back in the Field -- The Beginning of Doubts -- This May Be the Last Time -- Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories of the Freedom Fighters. The Intervening Years -- Joyful Reunions -- Tragic Losses, New Friendships -- We Shall Remember Them -- We Honor Them -- Keep Your Eyes on the Prize -- A Change Is Gonna Come.

"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.