League of Women Voters of Athens records, 1940-1977.

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League of Women Voters of Athens records, 1940-1977.

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The collection consists of records of the League of Women Voters of Athens (Ga.) from 1940-1977. The records include annual reports (1949-1977); correspondence (1951-1977); financial records; minutes (1950-1977); printed material including handbooks, newsletters, and programs; and scrapbooks (1940-1973 with gaps) containing clippings, photographs, and programs. The correspondence includes incoming letters and materials from the League of Women Voters of Georgia, the League of Women Voters of the United States, Representatives of Georgia's 10th District, and Georgia Senators as well as typed carbons of the League's outgoing correspondence. The materials document the League's various activities and contain information on county consolidations, county unit system, Georgia's educational system, pending legislation in both Georgia's General Assembly and the U.S. Congress, redistricting, and other political matters.

27.5 linear ft.

Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7403051

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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 Georgia

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League of Women Voters of Athens

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