This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight /

"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...

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Autor principal: Gitin, Maria
Format: Electrònic eBook
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014]
Col·lecció:Modern South.
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Accés en línia:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Sumari:"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"--
Descripció física:1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliografia:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780817387389 (e-book)