- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Surge Is Cited in Black Vote Registration", July 28, 1970
- Date of Original:
- 1970-07-28
- Subject:
- Political participation
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article describing the ways in which the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to register millions of Black voters in the Deep South. However, even after this voter registration surge, millions of Black voters remained unregistered. The Justice Department released figures showing that since the law went into effect, an additional 900,852 Blacks registered to vote in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. However, the department also said that more than one million Black voters in those states still would not be franchised on the fifth anniversary of the law. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1836
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- 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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