- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- VEP Press Release, October 23, 1981
- Creator:
- Voter Education Project, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1981-10-23
- Subject:
- African American leadership
City planning
African Americans--Civil rights
African American neighborhoods
African Americans--Politics and government - 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 from the Voter Education Project discussing the victory of four white candidates in majority Black districts in the 1981 City of Atlanta municipal elections, featuring results from a study conducted by K. Farouk Brimah and Richard A. Hudl of the Voter Education Project. The study found that four white candidates won elections in majority Black districts, while all three elections in majority white districts were won by white candidates. The study also found that Andrew Young, the leading mayoral candidate, received 62% of the Black vote, but only 12% of the white vote. The four white mayoral candidates received 87% of the white vote and 11% of the Black vote.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1882
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 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:
-
