- Collection:
- Manuscripts and Printed Material
- Title:
- Atkinson's Secret Circular to the Colored Voters of Georgia: What the Democratic Press Has to Say on the Subject
- Date of Original:
- 1890
- Subject:
- White supremacy movements
Political campaigns
Race relations--Political aspects
Atkinson, W. Y. (William Yates), 1854-1899
Georgia. Governor (1894-1898 : Atkinson) - People:
- Atkinson, W. Y. (William Yates), 1854-1899
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, 39.76, -98.5 - Medium:
- broadsides
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Writen in response to an eight-page pamphlet, supposedly written by the Democratic Party campaign managers and circulated among African-American voters, titled "What Governor Atkinson Has Done for the Colored People of Georgia." The present broadside goes on to accuse the governor of granting pardons to African-American murderers and rapists in order to win the African-American vote. Several examples of white women being raped and their attackers being pardoned.
- Local Identifier:
- Printed_Materials_Documents_005
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/printed/id/1065
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/iiif/2/printed:1065/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- This item is in the public domain and may be used without restriction.
- Additional Rights Information:
- The organization that has made the Item available believes that the Item is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Item may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Please refer to the organization that has made the Item available for more information.
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Printed_Materials_Documents_005 [digital version], James Walter Mason Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Original Collection:
- Rare Book Collection;Rare Book Collection;||James Walter Mason Collection;James Walter Mason Collection;
- Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
