- Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection
- Title:
- "VEP Announces Southwide Conflab For Black Elected Officials", December 4, 1968
- Date of Original:
- 1968-12-04
- Subject:
- Meetings
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Politics and government
African American leadership - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article discussing the Voter Education Project's Southwide Conference of Black Elected Officials, which included workshops on problems affecting black elected officials. The conference was set to focus on the problems and challenges that black officials face, and provide them with an opportunity to share experiences and receive information. More than 200 black officials from 11 states in the old South planned to attend. The keynote speakers included U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, Congresswoman-elect Shirley Chisholm, and Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Indiana.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1953
- 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:
-
