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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Tuscaloosa, Alabama :
University Alabama Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Modern South.
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