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This bright light of ours

stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

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This bright light of ours
Maria Gitin, Maria Gitin
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An edition of This bright light of ours (2014)

This bright light of ours

stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

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"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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307

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Race relations, Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Voter registration, Suffrage, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, History, Voting, African americans, suffrage, Racism, United states, social conditions, History ., 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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Maria Gitin

Places

Alabama, California, Southern States

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This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
2023, University of Alabama Press
in English
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This bright light of ours: stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
2014
in English
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This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
2014, University of Alabama Press
in English
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

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

Series
The modern South, Modern South
Other Titles
Stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
324.6/208996073075
Library of Congress
JK1929.A2 G58 2014, JK1929.A2G58 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 307 pages
Number of pages
307

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27207267M
ISBN 10
0817318178
ISBN 13
9780817318178
LCCN
2013045587
OCLC/WorldCat
844728474

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