- Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection
- Title:
- "Lack of Negro Delegates Hit", August 4, 1968
- Date of Original:
- 1968-08-04
- Subject:
- African American leadership
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans, 29.433, -89.73438 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article regarding the Louisiana Advancement Association's criticism of the "disproportionate" number of African Americans in the Louisiana delegation to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. The LAA demanded that the delegation be increased to 30 members, which would give African Americans 12 votes. The proposed delegation only had 10 African American members, which was the equivalent of three and a half votes. The LAA was concerned that the current delegation did not reflect the true demographics of Louisiana, where African Americans make up one-third of the population. The group was also concerned that the lack of African American representation in the delegation could hurt the Democratic Party in the upcoming election.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1939
- 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:
-
