TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gitin,Maria
TI  - This bright light of ours: stories from the Voting Rights fight 
T2  - The modern South
AV  - JK1929.A2 G58 2014
U1  - 324.6/208996073075 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
PB  - University Alabama Press
KW  - Gitin, Maria.
KW  - Selma to Montgomery Rights March
KW  - (1965
KW  - Selma, Ala.)
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  - Race relations
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index
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"--
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1620029
ER  -