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Voters at the voting booths

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Title:Voters at the voting booths
Date:1945
Description:

Black-and-white photograph showing African American voters lined up outside voting booths placed in a lobby or large office. The workers at the polling place shown in the photograph are white men.

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Types:Black-and-white photographs
Subjects:Polling places--United States | Voting | African Americans--Civil rights--United States | Civil rights--United States | African American men--United States | African American women--United States | Suffrage--United States | African Americans--Suffrage | United States
Collection:African American Odyssey
Institution:Library of Congress
Contributors:Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division | African-American Odyssey Collection (Library of Congress)
Online Publisher:Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress | 2005
Original Material:

NAACP Collection. Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division

(b&w film neg.); (digital file from original negative)

Related Materials:

Exhibited: African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship, Library of Congress, 1998.

Persistent Link to Item:http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/odyssey/archive/09/0917001r.jpg