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| Creator: | Moncrief, Winfred H., 1923- |
| Title: | Voter registration, Prentiss, October 1965 |
| Date: | 1965 Oct. |
| Description: | Voter registration August 25, 1965, at the Magnolia Motel in Prentiss (Miss.), following passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Motel owners Burt Allen and (mother) Aligene Allen discuss problems created by a federal court order that secured four rooms for voter registration. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs |
| Subjects: | Allen, Aligene | Allen, Burt | Voter registration--Law and legislation--Mississippi | African Americans--Civil rights--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century | Civil rights movements--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century | African Americans--Suffrage--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century | Voter registration--Mississippi--Prentiss--History--20th century | African Americans--Civil rights--History--20th century | Prentiss (Miss.)--Race relations--History--20th century | Mississippi--Race relations--History--20th century | Motels--Mississippi--Prentiss | Businesspeople--Mississippi--Prentiss | Prentiss (Miss.) | Jefferson Davis County (Miss.) |
| Collection: | Moncrief photograph collection |
| Institution: | Mississippi Department of Archives and History |
| Contributors: | Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History | Moncrief Photograph Collection (Mississippi. Dept. of Archives and History) |
| Online Publisher: | Jackson, Miss.: Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archives and Library | 2007 |
| Original Material: | Moncrief (Winfred) Photograph Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of Moncrief Photograph Collection. |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://mdah.state.ms.us/arlib/contents/er/moncrief/image.php?display=item&item=334 |
