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Author Gitin, Maria.

Title This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / Maria Gitin.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource.
Series Modern South
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.
Note Print version record.
Contents List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. My Freedom Summer 1965; 1. The Call to Action; 2. The Journey Begins; 3. The Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight; 4. Welcome to Wilcox County; 5. They Were Ready for Us; 6. Selma and SNCC; 7. Out in the Field; 8. Things Heat Up; 9. The Terror Continues; 10. A Brief Reprieve; 11. Back in the Field; 12. The Beginning of Doubts; 13. This May Be the Last Time; II. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories of the Freedom Fighters; 14. The Intervening Years; 15. Joyful Reunions; 16. Tragic Losses, New Friendships.
17. We Shall Remember Them18. We Honor Them; 19. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize; 20. A Change Is Gonna Come; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
Subject Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.)
Gitin, Maria.
Gitin, Maria. (OCoLC)fst01925509
Selma to Montgomery Rights March. (OCoLC)fst01732888
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.
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)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
African Americans -- Suffrage. (OCoLC)fst00799713
Civil rights movements. (OCoLC)fst00862708
Civil rights workers. (OCoLC)fst00862721
Race relations. (OCoLC)fst01086509
Voter registration. (OCoLC)fst01169215
Alabama. (OCoLC)fst01204694
California. (OCoLC)fst01204928
Southern States. (OCoLC)fst01244550
Genre/Form Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: 9780817318178 0817318178 (DLC) 2013045587
ISBN 0817387382 (electronic bk.)
9780817387389 (electronic bk.)
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