- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Renew, Strengthen Voting Act, Young Urges Congress", March 8, 1975
- Date of Original:
- 1975-03
- Subject:
- African American civic leaders
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Civil rights movements - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- newpaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article describing Congressman Andrew Young urging of Congress to extend and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which was set to expire. Young, who participated in the voting rights movement in Selma, Alabama, ten years prior, presented a documentary film on the voting rights movement to the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights. 1 page.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1839
- 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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