- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- "Surge Is Cited in Black Vote Registration", July 28, 1970
- Date of Original:
- 1970-07-28
- Subject:
- Political participation
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government - 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 ways in which the Voting Rights Act of 1965 helped to register millions of Black voters in the Deep South. However, even after this voter registration surge, millions of Black voters remained unregistered. The Justice Department released figures showing that since the law went into effect, an additional 900,852 Blacks registered to vote in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. However, the department also said that more than one million Black voters in those states still would not be franchised on the fifth anniversary of the law.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1836
- 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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