TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gitin,Maria
TI  - This bright light of ours: stories from the Voting Rights fight 
T2  - Modern South
SN  - 9780817387389
AV  - JK1929 .T457 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
PB  - University Alabama Press
KW  - Gitin, Maria.
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Alabama
KW  - Voter registration
KW  - Civil rights workers
KW  - California
KW  - Biography
KW  - Civil rights movements
KW  - History
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - "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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