"Expanded Vote Act Refused by Senate", July 23, 1975

Collection:: Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Title:: "Expanded Vote Act Refused by Senate", July 23, 1975
Date of Original:: 1975-07-23
Subject:: African American civic leaders
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Civil rights movements
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:: Newspaper article describing the U.S. Senate voting down of an amendment to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that would have expanded the law to all 50 states. The amendment was proposed by Sen. Herman Talmadge, who argued that the law should be applied to all areas of the country where minority voting participation has been low.
Metadata URL:: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1835
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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