Women In The News: Getting Out Voters Is Their Project
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Object Details
- Date
- October 1, 1956
- Created by
- Janet Henderson, American, 1921 - 1985
- Published by
- San Francisco News, American, 1903 - 1965
- Subject of
- Floyd Green Allen, American, 1906 - 1967
- Frances M. Albrier, American, 1898 - 1987
- San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945
- National Council of Negro Women, founded 1935
- 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 newspaper clipping from the San Francisco News describes the efforts of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women to register and encourage residents to vote. The article describes the voter registration motorcade, the number of voters that the group registered, and the upcoming events sponsored by the group. A few phrases in the article are underlined in blue ink. The article is adhered to the thirteenth (13) page of Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
- Place depicted
- San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Associations and institutions
- Education
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- Women
- Women's organizations
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Books and Published Materials
- Movement
- Women's Club Movement
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2010.60.1.16
- Type
- clippings
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Medium
- ink on newsprint
- Dimensions
- H x W: 10 7/8 × 3 11/16 in. (27.6 × 9.4 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2010.60.1.16