Campaign Finds Many Negro Voters Unregistered
- Created by
- McKinney, Joan, American, 1916 - 2009
- Published by
- San Francisco Chronicle, American, founded 1865
- Subject of
- Albrier, Frances M., American, 1898 - 1987
- San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945
- National Council of Negro Women, founded 1935
- Date
- October 2, 1956
- Medium
- ink on newsprint
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6 × 6 in. (15.2 × 15.2 cm)
- Caption
- This document is part of a scrapbook that was compiled in 1956 and 1957 by Frances Albrier during her term as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The scrapbook highlights the Chapter’s efforts to register voters and educate Bay Area residents on the importance of voting as a part of the Citizenship Education Project which was jointly sponsored by the NCNW and the National Urban League.
- Description
- This brief news article from the San Francisco Chronicle discusses the findings of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women when members contacted over 1500 eligible voters to find out why they were not registered to vote. This article is taped to the top half of the tenth page of Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
- Place depicted
- San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Documents and Published Materials-Published Works
- Movement
- Women's Club Movement
- Type
- clippings
- Topic
- Activism
- Associations and institutions
- Education
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- Women
- Women's organizations
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection
- Object number
- 2010.60.1.12.1
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