stories from the Voting Rights fight Gitin, Maria. creator text bibliography biography Electronic books. alu 2014 2014 monographic eng 1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations. "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"-- Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin. Includes bibliographical references and index. n-usu-- n-us-al 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 JK1929.A2 G58 2014eb 324.6/208996073075 Gitin, Maria. Tuscaloosa, Alabama : University Alabama Press, [2014] (DLC) 2013045587 9780817387389 (e-book) http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10835963 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10835963 CaPaEBR 131121 ebr10835963 eng