This Bright Light of Ours : Stories from the Voting Rights Fight /

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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
Autor principal: Gitin, Maria
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Gitin, Maria.
Voter registration.
Race relations.
Civil rights workers.
Civil rights movements.
African Americans > Suffrage.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY > United States > 20th century.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > Alabama > Histoire.
Defenseurs des droits de l'homme > Californie > Biographies.
Noirs americains > Suffrage > Alabama.
Noirs americains > Suffrage > États-Unis (Sud)
Civil rights movements > Southern States > History.
Civil rights movements > Alabama > History.
Civil rights workers > California > Biography.
Voter registration > Alabama.
Voter registration > Southern States.
African Americans > Suffrage > Alabama.
African Americans > Suffrage > Southern States.
Southern States.
California.
Alabama.
Alabama > Relations raciales.
États-Unis (Sud) > Relations raciales.
Alabama > Race relations.
Southern States > Race relations.
Biographies.
History.
Electronic books.
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 (327 pages).
ISBN:9780817387389

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