Book Talk and Signing with Civil Rights Veteran Maria Gitin

On January 28, the King Institute hosted Freedom Summer veteran Maria Gitin, who discussed her new book This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight. The book offers an insider's experience of the community-based activism that was the heart of the civil rights movement. Describing the book as a celebration of grassroots heroes, Maria read first-person accounts of the people she met in 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. Thank you, Maria, for joining us.