Title |
Date Created |
Description |
Subject |
Collection |
"Black Voter Turnout and Registration Rates Fall In Last Presidential Election, Census Bureau Reports", March |
1989-03-08 |
Report from the Census Bureau examining voter turnout in the 1988 presidential election. The report found that voter turnout among Black Americans decreased from 56% in 1984 to 52% in 1988, with white voter turnout also decreasing from 61% to 59%, while Hispanic voter turnout fell from 33% to 29%. The report also found that Black voter turnout was higher in the North and West than it was in the South. Among Whites, voter turnout was higher in the North and West than in the South. Overall, the report found that registration rates among Black Americans, White Americans, and Hispanic Americans all decreased from 1984 to 1988. 3 pages. |
African American civic leaders, African Americans--Civil rights, Voter registration, African Americans--Politics and government, Political participation |
Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
"Voting Act Extension Is Pressed", July 19, 1975 |
1975-07-19 |
Newspaper article discussing Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield's efforts to to secure a 10-year extension of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, despite Southern pushback from Sens. James Allen and Jesse Helms, who tried to block the bill from being debated. Mansfield warned that the Senate would "confront the issue" if such tactics continued to be used. The updated bill would expand the law to cover Mexican-Americans and other language minority groups. 2 pages. |
African American civic leaders, African Americans--Civil rights, Voter registration, African Americans--Politics and government, Civil rights movements |
Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
"Poor People's March Turns into Nightmare", circa June 1968 |
1968-06 |
A newspaper clipping describing Dr. King's Poor People's Campaign and the disorganization, internal conflicts, and lack of clear leadership. 1 page. |
African American civic leaders, African Americans--Civil rights, Protest movements |
Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
Republican National Committee Press Releases, January 26, 1967 |
1967-01-26 |
Press releases from the Republican National Committee regarding two Republican senators, Sens. Howard H. Baker of Tennessee and Edward Brooke of Massachusetts, sharing an office together on Capitol Hill, the appointment of a black gubernatorial aide, William D. Johnson, to the Governor's Office of Pennsylvania under Gov. Raymond P. Shafer, and the establishment of a plan to attract Black voters to the GOP by Clarence L. Townes, Jr., special assistant to the Republican National Chairman at the time. These press releases demonstrate the issues that most impacted the GOP as it attempted to establish itself as a leading party. 4 pages. |
African American civic leaders, African Americans--Civil rights, Voting, African Americans--Politics and government |
Voter Education Project Organizational Records |