Title: This bright light of ours
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"--
Subjects: Race relations, Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.), Voter registration, Suffrage, Civil rights movements, Civil rights workers, African Americans, Biography, History, Voting, African americans, suffrage, Racism, United states, social conditions, History ., HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) (uri) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2005026949 (uri) http://viaf.org/viaf/sourceID/LC|nr2005026949
Places: Alabama, California, Southern States
People: Maria Gitin