- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "John Lewis Gets Award From VEP", October 28, 1983
- Date of Original:
- 1983-10-28
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
Voter registration
African Americans--Civil rights - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Civil rights activist and Atlanta city councilman John Lewis received the Martin Luther King Jr. Award at the annual Voter Education Project banquet for his work in voter registration and education, and spoke optimistically about the progress towards a biracial democracy in the South, after having been beaten unconscious four times and jailed over 40 times for his civil rights and voter registration efforts. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1672
- 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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