This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 voting rights fight /

This bright light of ours : stories from the 1965 voting rights fight /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Gitin, Maria, author.
Imprint:	Tuscaloosa : The University of Alabama Press, [2014]
Description:	xvi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	The modern South Modern South.
Subject:	Gitin, Maria. Gitin, Maria. Selma to Montgomery Rights March -- (1965 : -- Selma, Ala.) Selma to Montgomery Rights March. African Americans -- Suffrage -- Southern States. African Americans -- Suffrage -- Alabama. Voter registration -- Southern States. Voter registration -- Alabama. Civil rights workers -- California -- Biography. Civil rights movements -- Alabama -- History. Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History. African Americans -- Suffrage. Civil rights movements. Civil rights workers. Race relations. Voter registration. Southern States -- Race relations. Alabama -- Race relations. Alabama. California. Southern States. Biography. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9918215

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ISBN:	9780817318178 (cloth) 0817318178 (cloth) 9780817387389 (e book)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
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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Call Number:	JK1929.A2 G58 2014
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