- Collection:
- Print Culture of the Civil Rights Movement, 1950-1980
- Title:
- Freedom Vote flyer
- Creator:
- Council of Federated Organizations
- Publisher:
- New Orleans, La. : Amistad Research Center
- Date of Original:
- 1963
- Subject:
- Voter registration--Mississippi
Council of Federated Organizations (U.S.) - People:
- Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997
King, Edwin H. - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- publications (documents)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Flyer for "Freedom Vote" campaign sponsored by the Council of Federated Organizations under the presidency of Aaron Henry. The campaign was a mock statewide general election to parallel the Mississippi gubernatorial election of 1963 to demonstrate the willingness of African Americans to vote. Henry was on the mock ballot for governor and Edwin King, a white chaplain at Tougaloo College in Jackson, was on the ballot for lieutenant governor. Ballot boxes were placed in churches, businesses, and homes across the state, and voting took place over a weekend, from Friday to Monday. Henry and King "won" the mock election in which more than 80,000 Black Mississippians voted.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:21147
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Physical rights for this document are held by the Amistad Research Center. Requests to publish, redistribute, or replicate this material should be addressed to the Amistad Research Center.
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
