Exploring Monterey Bay host Mathilde Rand is in conversation with Maria Gitin and Marcia Hashimoto about Acts of Courage.
Maria Gitin did field work with the SCLC SCOPE project in Wilcox County, AL in the Summer of 1965 and with the SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) in community organizing, voter education and registration. Fourty years later she returned and spoke with the people she met in Alabama. She wrote The Bright Light Of Ours based on her experiences. Maria is a frequent presenter on racial justice and voting rights.
Marcia Hashimoto is the Co-President of the Watsonville-Santa Cruz Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League. She grew up in a Black-Asian “ghetto” neighborhood in San Mateo. After WW II this was the only area in San Mateo where Japanese and Japanese Americans were permitted and welcomed to live.
Her husband, Mas had been incarcerated during WW II and later educated the community about his and fellow prisoners’ experiences. After his death Marcia continued that work.
Both Maria and Marcia have internalized the courage of people they met.
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