- 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, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- articles
- 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.
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1714
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- 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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