- Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records
- Title:
- VEP Press Release, November 15, 1983
- Creator:
- Voter Education Project, Inc. (Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1983-11-15
- 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 regarding a report that found that there were 88 counties in the South where Blacks had a majority of the voting age population. However, Blacks only held 26% of the elected offices in these counties. The report attributed this to barriers in Black voter registration and participation, such as inaccessible registration sites, inconvenient hours for registration, and economic threats. The Voter Education Project also announced plans to register 500,000 blacks by the Fall of 1984 in order to increase Black representation in these counties.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1902
- 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:
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