League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County records, 1917-1982.

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League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County records, 1917-1982.

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Through correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, publications and printed material, the collection documents the activities the League of Women Voters of Atlanta-Fulton County and its relationships to national and state leagues, from 1917-1982. Subject files, the bulk of the collection, document the efforts of the group to promote political participation among the citizens of Atlanta and covers topics ranging from segregation to juvenile delinquency, as well as various city ordinances. Publications and printed material derive mainly from the national ("Action," "The National Voter"), state ("The Pilgrim," "Georgia Voter"), and city and county leagues ("Facts," "Memo," "The New Citizen," "Newsletter," and "Up-to-the-Minute"), but also includes conservative publications, such as "Human Events."

2.51 linear feet (12 document cases)

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7117689

Atlanta History Center, Kenan Research Center / Cherokee Garden Library

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League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

League of Women Voters of Atlanta/Fulton County

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