This book is currently unavailable on Open Library, check out available alternatives.
An edition of This bright light of ours (2014)

This bright light of ours

stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

by

This bright light of ours
Maria Gitin, Maria Gitin
Locate

My Reading Lists:

Create a new list

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

This book is currently unavailable on Open Library, check out available alternatives.
Last edited by MARC Bot
January 22, 2026 | History
Edit
An edition of This bright light of ours (2014)

This bright light of ours

stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

by

"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"--

Publish Date
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Language
English
Pages
307

Check nearby libraries

Buy this book

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

People

Maria Gitin

Places

Alabama California Southern States
Edition Availability
Cover of: This Bright Light of Ours
This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
2023, University of Alabama Press
in English
Cover of: This Bright Light of Ours
This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight
2014, University of Alabama Press
in English
Cover of: This bright light of ours
This bright light of ours: stories from the 1965 voting rights fight
2014, The University of Alabama Press
in English

Add another edition?

Book Details

Table of Contents

My Freedom Summer, 1965. The Call to Action
The Journey Begins
The Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight
Welcome to Wilcox County
They Were Ready for Us
Selma and SNCC
Out in the Field
Things Heat Up
The Terror Continues
A Brief Reprieve
Back in the Field
The Beginning of Doubts
This May Be the Last Time
Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories of the Freedom Fighters. The Intervening Years
Joyful Reunions
Tragic Losses, New Friendships
We Shall Remember Them
We Honor Them
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize
A Change Is Gonna Come.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-292) and index.

Series
The modern South, Modern South
Other Titles
Stories from the 1965 voting rights fight

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
324.6/208996073075
Library of Congress
JK1929.A2 G58 2014, JK1929.A2G58 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvi, 307 pages
Number of pages
307

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL27207267M
ISBN 10
0817318178
ISBN 13
9780817318178
LCCN
2013045587
OCLC/WorldCat
844728474

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL20027219W

Source records

Community Reviews (0)

No community reviews have been submitted for this work.

Lists

Download catalog record: RDF / JSON / OPDS | Wikipedia citation