Voices From the Civil Rights Movement: Maria Gitin

To celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Black History Month, The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza is pleased to share a special series of one-on-one conversations with 1960s civil rights activists. This installment features author Maria Gitin. As a student at San Francisco State College, Gitin spent the summer of 1965 participating in the Summer Community Organizing and Political Education (SCOPE) project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. She is the author of This Bright Light of Ours: Stories from the Voting Rights Fight (2014). This interview was recorded via Zoom on July 9, 2021. This interview may contain harsh language and descriptions of violence and may experience occasion technical difficulties. After reviewing this oral history, Maria Gitin wished to acknowledge two errors: 1) She mistakenly mentions that she was in jail for a month, though it was actually about thirty-six hours. 2) The University of South Alabama is located in Mobile, not Atlanta.
All interviews featured in the “Voices from the Civil Rights Movement” series are part of the ongoing Oral History Project at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza. More than 2,000 interviews have been recorded to date, exploring the history and culture of the 1960s as well as the life, death and legacy of President John F. Kennedy. If you are interested in researching or participating in the Oral History Project, please contact [e-mail]. To see related films, photos, documents and oral histories from The Sixth Floor Museum's collection, visit our online collections database (emuseum.jfk.org).

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