- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- VEP Press Release, August 20, 1982
- Date of Original:
- 1982-08-20
- Subject:
- African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta
Political participation
Voting
African Americans--Politics and government - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- news bulletins
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- An analysis showed that there was little difference between the way Black and White Atlantans voted for the candidates with the highest percentages of votes in the city, and despite a 20% gap between the Black and White voting age population, one third of those registered to vote actually went to the polls, with Norman Underwood and Jack Watson receiving the highest percentages of votes. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1518
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: achives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- 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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