&quot;Suit Challenges Tift's Method of Elections&quot;, January 20, 1983

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Title: "Suit Challenges Tift's Method of Elections", January 20, 1983
Date: 1983-01-20
Decade: 1980-1989
Description: Six Tift County voters are filing a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Valdosta, challenging the county's at-large methods of electing members to the county commission and county board of education, alleging that the present at-large system of voting discriminates against Black voters in Tift County, and asking the court to establish election districts to choose members of the two bodies. 2 pages.
Subject: African Americans--Politics and government
Race discrimination
African Americans--Civil rights
Dispute Resolution
Document Type: text
Format: application/pdf
Medium: newspaper clippings
Collection: Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Finding Aid: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:076
Institution: Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Geographic Location: Georgia--Tifton
Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1674
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