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6) History and hope in the heart of Dixie: scholarship, activism, and Wayne Flynt in the modern South
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University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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University Alabama Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"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...
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The University of Alabama Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Florida governor Reubin Askew memorably characterized a leader as "someone who cares enough to tell the people not merely what they want to hear, but what they need to know." It was a surprising statement for a contemporary politician to make, and, more surprising still, it worked. In The Politics of Trust: Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s, Gordon E. Harvey traces the life and career of the man whose public service many still recall as "the...