- Collection:
- Neighborhood Union Collection
- Title:
- "Beginning with Voting", February 20, 1989
- Date of Original:
- 1989-02-20
- 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, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Medium:
- archival materials
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper book review of Abigail Themstrom's "Whose Votes Count: Affirmative Action and Minority Voting Rights", which examined the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and its impact on minority representation in government. Themstrom argued that the act had been distorted from its original intent and that the current focus on proportional representation was misguided. She believed that the act should be amended to focus on equality of opportunity, rather than equality of outcomes.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:2069
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 pages
- 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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