- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- VEP Press Release, November 4, 1981
- Creator:
- Voter Education Project, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1981-11-04
- Subject:
- Political participation
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
African American leadership - 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 regarding a study conducted by K. Farouk Brimah and Richard A. Hudl. of the Voter Education Project, which found that blacks alone provided enough votes to elect Andrew Young as mayor of Atlanta in the 1981 runoff election. Blacks cast 88% of their votes for Young, while whites cast an even higher percentage of their votes for white candidates than they did in the October 6 election. The study also found that Atlantans could be mobilized, as turnout was higher in the runoff than in the October 6 election.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1884
- 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:
-
