Resolution Urging Congress To Permanently Extend Voting Rights Act, January 1975

Collection:: Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Title:: Resolution Urging Congress To Permanently Extend Voting Rights Act, January 1975
Date of Original:: 1975-01
Subject:: Voter registration
Voting
African Americans--Civil rights
African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta
Location:: United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
Medium:: archival materials
Type:: Text
Format:: application/pdf
Description:: A resolution by the Atlanta City Council urging the United States Congress to permanently extend the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which eliminated literacy tests and other barriers to the ballot, increased Black registration and the number of Black elected officials in the South, and insured meaningful participation in registration and voting.
Metadata URL:: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1736
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
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