Photograph of women activists with signs for voter registration
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Object Details
- Date
- September 8, 1956
- Photograph by
- Cox Studio, American, founded 1957
- Subject of
- Lurline White, American
- Sallie Edwards, American
- Lulu Carter, American
- Illa Buckner, American, 1882 - 1978
- Beulah Staton, American
- Eddye Keaton Williams, American
- Margaret Buford, American
- Cathryn Williams, American
- Esther Wise, American
- Dola Miller II, French
- 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 photograph 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
- A black-and-white photograph of ten women lined up with signs along the Citizenship Education Project's motorcade route encouraging voting and voter registration. There is a typewritten caption on a white strip of paper below the photograph that reads, "LINING-UP FOR MOTORCADE." The photograph is adhered to page 24 of Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
- Place captured
- San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Associations and institutions
- Civil Rights
- Education
- Photography
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Women
- Women's organizations
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Photographs and Still Images
- Movement
- Civil Rights 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
- 2010.60.1.27
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Metadata Usage
- CC0
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2010.60.1.27