- Collection:
- Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
- Title:
- John Lewis VEP Tour Speech at Chase City, Virginia, September 21-23, 1972
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lewis, John, 1940-2020
Bond, Julian, 1940-2015 - Date of Original:
- 1972-09-21
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Politics and government
Speeches, addresses, etc.
Voting
Voter registration - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Virginia, Mecklenburg County, Chase City, 36.79931, -78.45833 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- application/pdf||audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Speeches of John Lewis and Julian Bond speaking in Virginia in 1972. Bond and Lewis spent three days in Virginia speaking at churches and Prince Edward County High School. They and their team have been traveling throughout the South on a nonpartisan voter registration tour, emphasizing the importance of the vote as a crucial tool for change and urging Black people to register and vote in the upcoming elections to continue the progress made in increasing Black voter registration and representation in the South.
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1796_000
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:076
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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