- Collection:
- Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
- Title:
- "Black Voter Participation in 1980 Presidential Election", December 12, 1980
- Date of Original:
- 1980-12-12
- Subject:
- African Americans--Politics and government
African Americans--Civil rights
Voting
Political science - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- press releases
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Press release on how 95% of Black registered voters in the South who turned out in the 1980 presidential election voted for Jimmy Carter, with a range of 92-97% in different states. Ronald Reagan won only 82,000 Black votes, ranging from 2-6% of the total Black vote. The study found that socioeconomic differences among Southern Blacks did not significantly affect their voting behavior.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1793
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 2 pages
- Original Collection:
- Voter Education Project Organizational Records||http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:076
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
