- Collection:
- Countee Cullen-Harold Jackman Memorial Collection
- Title:
- "GOP's Southern Strategy Singing the Atwater Blues", March 9, 1989
- Date of Original:
- 1989-03-09
- Subject:
- Political campaigns
African Americans--Civil rights
Voter registration
African Americans--Politics and government
Political participation - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- articles
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Newspaper article discussing the resignation of Lee Atwater, chairman of the Republican National Committee, from the board of trustees of Howard University after students protested his appointment. Atwater had been criticized for his history of using racist political tactics, and the students argued that he did not represent the black agenda represented by the historically-Black college.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.076:1803
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 page
- 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:
-
