- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Get Out The Vote Meeting in Jackson, Mississippi, 2004
- Date of Original:
- 2004
- Subject:
- Meetings
Voting
Voter registration
African Americans--Education
Political participation - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson, 32.29876, -90.18481
- Medium:
- videotapes
- Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- This video features the proceedings of a "Get Out The Vote" meeting held in Jackson, Mississippi. The recording opens with Amanda Green Alexander (Mississippi Center for Justice) answering meeting attendees' questions about election processes, voting rights violations, election monitoring, and Mississippi law. Patrick Merloe, the senior associate and director of electoral programs at the National Democratic Institute, then comes to the podium to talk about the importance of protecting voting rights. Both Merloe and Alexander answer additional questions from the audience. The video concludes with closing remarks and b-roll of attendees talking after the meeting and arrival at the Jackson International Airport.
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:01331
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 00:59:52
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Contributing Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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