02875nam a2200529 i 4500 ebr10835963 CaPaEBR m o d cr cn||||||||| 131121t20142014alua ob 001 0deng|d 9780817318178 (cloth) 9780817387389 (e-book) CaPaEBR eng rda pn CaPaEBR (OCoLC)870663396 n-usu-- n-us-al JK1929.A2 G58 2014eb 324.6/208996073075 23 Gitin, Maria. This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014] �2014 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. text rdacontent computer rdamedia online resource rdacarrier The modern South Includes bibliographical references and index. "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"-- Provided by publisher. Description based on print version record. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Gitin, Maria. Selma to Montgomery Rights March (1965 : Selma, Ala.) 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. Southern States Race relations. Alabama Race relations. Electronic books. Print version: Gitin, Maria. This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014] The modern South 9780817318178 (DLC) 2013045587 ebrary. Modern South. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10835963 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 88476 88476