- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- VEP Press Release, November 10, 1982
- Creator:
- Voter Education Project, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1982-11-10
- Subject:
- Political participation
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Demographic surveys - 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 how white Georgians went to the polls at more than twice the rate of Blacks for the runoff for the Republican nominee for the U.S. Fifth District Congressional seat. Whites voted 58% for the black nominee in the Republican primary runoff, while Blacks cast 95% of their votes for Jones. Voter turnout was light, with less than one percent of the registered voters going to the polls. From these results, VEP urged citizens to actively participate in the upcoming general election.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1893
- 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:
-
