- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Thompson Speaks on Voting Rights Act", June 23, 1981
- Date of Original:
- 1981-06-23
- Subject:
- African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Civil rights
African American women
African American civic leaders
African American civil rights workers - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- press releases
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Press release on Mrs. Geraldine G. Thompson, executive director of the VEP, testified before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the House Judiciary Committee, calling the Voting Rights Act "the most effective civil rights legislation ever passed" and stating that the key provisions of the Act should be extended if minorities are to achieve full equality in the political system.
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1787
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 pages
- 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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