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Autore |
Gitin Maria |
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Titolo |
This bright light of ours : stories from the Voting Rights fight / / Maria Gitin ; foreword by Lewis V. Baldwin |
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Tuscaloosa, Alabama : , : University Alabama Press, , [2014] |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (328 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African Americans - Suffrage - Southern States |
African Americans - Suffrage - Alabama |
Voter registration - Southern States |
Voter registration - Alabama |
Civil rights workers - California |
Civil rights movements - Alabama - History |
Civil rights movements - Southern States - History |
Southern States Race relations |
Alabama Race relations |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Illustrations; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; I. My Freedom Summer 1965; 1. The Call to Action; 2. The Journey Begins; 3. The Wilcox County Voting Rights Fight; 4. Welcome to Wilcox County; 5. They Were Ready for Us; 6. Selma and SNCC; 7. Out in the Field; 8. Things Heat Up; 9. The Terror Continues; 10. A Brief Reprieve; 11. Back in the Field; 12. The Beginning of Doubts; 13. This May Be the Last Time; II. Looking Back, Moving Forward: Stories of the Freedom Fighters; 14. The Intervening Years; 15. Joyful Reunions; 16. Tragic Losses, New Friendships |
17. We Shall Remember Them18. We Honor Them; 19. Keep Your Eyes on the Prize; 20. A Change Is Gonna Come; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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"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 |
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