This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. A celebration of grassroots heroes, this book details through first-person accounts the contributions of ordinary people who formed the nonviolent army that won the fight for voting rights. Combining memoir and oral history, Maria Gitin fills a vital gap in civil rights history by focusing on the neglected Freedom Summer of 1965 when hundreds of college students joined forces with local black leaders to register thousands of new black...
This Bright Light of Ours offers a tightly focused insider s view of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights moveme...
About the Contributor(s): Thomas A. Mulhall is an independent researcher trained in International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin. He has done extensive research on the life and thought of Martin Luther King Jr. He contributed to the book ""In an Inescapable Network of Mutuality"": Martin Luther King Jr., and the Globalization of an Ethical Ideal, edited by Lewis V. Baldwin and Paul R. Dekar (Cascade, 2013).
About the Contributor(s): Thomas A. Mulhall is an independent researcher trained in International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trin...
