- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Line at the Polls
- Publisher:
- Voting, Box LBME3, Envelope 39, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection, 1920-1976, Special Collections Department & Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta.
- Date of Original:
- 1946
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
Civil rights--Georgia--Atlanta
African American men--Georgia--Atlanta
African American women--Georgia--Atlanta
Voting--Georgia--Atlanta
Buildings--Georgia--Atlanta
Signs and signboards--Georgia--Atlanta
African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Polling places--Georgia--Atlanta
Atlanta (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- African American voters in Georgia wait to enter a polling facility in 1946. Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many Black officials have been elected to office on both the state and federal levels.
Photograph of African American voters in Atlanta, Georgia wait to enter a polling facility in 1946. They stand in a single-file line outside a dark stone building. A sign reading "Register Here. Colored Only" hangs over the door. Since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, many Black officials have been elected to office on both the state and federal levels. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-suffrage-in-the-twentieth-century/m-7909/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Special Collections Department & Archives, Georgia State University, Atlanta
Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library - Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/government-politics/black-suffrage-twentieth-century
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection - Contributing Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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