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"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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gitin, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Modern South.
Temas:
Gitin, Maria.
Gitin, Maria
Selma to Montgomery Rights March > (1965 : > Selma, Ala.)
Selma to Montgomery Rights March
African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama.
Voter registration > Southern States.
Voter registration > Alabama.
Civil rights workers > California > Biography.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > History.
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History.
Noirs américains > Suffrage > États-Unis (Sud)
Noirs américains > Suffrage > Alabama.
Défenseurs des droits de l'homme > Californie > Biographies.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Alabama > Histoire.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
African Americans > Suffrage
Civil rights movements
Civil rights workers
Race relations
Voter registration
Southern States > Race relations.
Alabama > Race relations.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Alabama > Relations raciales.
Alabama
California
Southern States
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0817387382
9780817387389

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