This Bright Light of Ours - Stories from the Voting Rights Fight

Informationen zum Autor Maria Gitin was a national fundraising and diversity trainer for twenty-eight years. She has served as Executive Director of a YWCA, founded a shelter for survivors of domestic violence, and continues to register voters in communities of color. Currently, Gitin is a frequent presenter on cultural competency and voting rights. She lives in Northern California with her photographer husband, Samuel Torres Jr. Klappentext Combining memoir with oral history, creates a vivid and searing portrait of the Freedom Summer of 1965

Product details

• Authors: Maria Gitin, Maria/ Baldwin Gitin
• Publisher: The University of Alabama Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.02.2014
• EAN: 9780817318178
• ISBN: 978-0-8173-1817-8
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Modern South; Modern South
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; 20. Jahrhundert (1900 bis 1999 n. Chr.), Politische Strukturen und Prozesse, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, History - U.S., USA Süden, South Atlantic States, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV), POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Campaigns & Elections