- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Through Hell at King Elbow", 1975
- Date of Original:
- 1975
- Subject:
- Voter registration
Voting
African American civic leaders
Race discrimination
African American civil rights workers
African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Civil rights - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- The article discusses the work of John Lewis, head of the Voter Education Project, which aims to register Black voters in 11 southern states, and has added 2.5 million new Black voters to the voting lists since 1965, and the significance of the Voting Rights Act, including the recent extension of the act by the US House of Representatives and Ronald Reagan's denial of knowledge of the act. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1714
- 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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