- Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection
- Title:
- "Voter Registration Urged Of Blacks", September 29, 1976
- Date of Original:
- 1976-09-29
- Subject:
- African American civic leaders
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, South Carolina, Greenville County, Greenville, 34.85262, -82.39401 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article describing John R. Lewis sentiments on voter registration after speaking at a press conference in Greenville, South Carolina, on September 26, 1976. Lewis urged Black voters to register to vote before the October 2 registration deadline. Lewis said that he and his colleagues found that 80% of the students at a community college in Mississippi were not registered to vote. He also insisted that the federal government do more to make it easier to register to vote.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1830
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- 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:
-
