- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Project 88 in '88", 1988
- Creator:
- Voter Education Project, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- Labor
Political participation
African American civil rights workers
Voter registration - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Medium:
- archival materials
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- A grant proposal addressing new voting rights issues in the decades after the Voting Rights Act. The proposal details a change to the prexisting small grant programs and elderly outreach. Page 8 obstructed text: complete issue to black poliltical participation, highlighting the activities of registration and get-out-the-vote activity in the South. (in bold) The Working Poor and The Unemployed: (regular text) To achieve any dramatic increases in levels of black voter registration, VEP must target the young black poor and unemployed. VEP, in cooperation with the Southern Labor Institute and its affiliate unions will arrange for the hiring and training of umeployed young people to register the working poor and the umployed and to get them out to vote. The workers will make frequent visits to temporary labor pool sites, the unemployment offices, and state and municipal social service agencies that serve the poor. VEP and the Southern Labor Institute are very interested in working with the organization Nine to Five to target black clerical temporary employees.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:2108
- 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: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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