This bright light of ours
stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
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Word Count
76,750 words, Guess
Page Count
307 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100817318178
- ISBN-139780817318178
- Library of Congress Control Number2013045587
- OCLC Control Number844728474
- Better World Books9780817318178
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL27207267M
Classifications
- DDC324.6/208996073075
- LCCJK1929.A2 G58 2014
- LCCJK1929.A2G58 2014
Alternate Titles
- Stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
Description
"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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Series Statement
- The modern South
- Modern South
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