This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin.
2014
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Ebrary electronic monographs.
Title
This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin.
Imprint
Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014]
Copyright
©2014.
Description
1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.
Series
Modern South.
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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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Description based on print version record.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Gitin, Maria. This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014] The modern South
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Language
English
ISBN
9780817387389 e-book
9780817318178 (cloth)
9780817318178 (cloth)
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