This bright light of ours
Subtitle: stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
By: Maria Gitin
Series: The modern South; Modern South
Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
ISBN-13: 9780817318178
Subjects: Race relations; Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.); Voter registration; Suffrage; Civil rights movements; Civil rights workers; African Americans; Biography; History
Other 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.
Table of contents: title: My Freedom Summer, 1965. The Call to Action; title: The Journey Begins; title: The Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight; title: Welcome to Wilcox County; title: They Were Ready for Us; title: Selma and SNCC; title: Out in the Field; title: Things Heat Up; title: The Terror Continues; title: A Brief Reprieve; title: Back in the Field; title: The Beginning of Doubts; title: This May Be the Last Time; title: Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories of the Freedom Fighters. The Intervening Years; title: Joyful Reunions; title: Tragic Losses, New Friendships; title: We Shall Remember Them; title: We Honor Them; title: Keep Your Eyes on the Prize; title: A Change Is Gonna Come.