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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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
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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