- Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
- Title:
- Voter Registration in Columbus, Georgia, 1962
- Date of Original:
- 1962
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Voter registration
Voting - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Muscogee County, Columbus, 32.46098, -84.98771
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Women and men stand in line to register to vote in Columbus, Georgia as part of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference's Citizenship Education Program. Written on verso: C.E.P. Voter Registration in C. Ga (4/2/62-1) / Caption from duplicate photo: Future Voters in Line at the Registrar's Office in Columbus, Georgia -- In this city S.C.L.C. is working with the Muscogee County Citizens Registration Organization, headed by Mr. Vernon Mitchell. During the first week of the "crash program" 1,000 new registered voters were secured.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/auc.199:02203
- Rights Holder:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Additional Rights Information:
- All works in this collection either are protected by copyright and/or are the property of the Robert W. Woodruff Library, and/or the copyright holder as appropriate. To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Archives Research Center at: archives@auctr.edu with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Original Collection:
- The Joseph Echols and Evelyn Gibson Lowery Collection
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:199 - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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