Photograph of women activists with signs for voter registration
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Object Details
- 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).
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection
- September 8, 1956
- Object number
- 2010.60.1.27
- Restrictions & Rights
- Unknown - Restrictions Possible
- Rights assessment and proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
- Type
- gelatin silver prints
- Medium
- silver and photographic gelatin on photographic paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 8 x 10 in. (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
- Place captured
- San Francisco, California, United States, North and Central America
- See more items in
- National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
- Classification
- Media Arts-Photography
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Women's Club Movement
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Topic
- African American
- Activism
- Associations and institutions
- Civil Rights
- Education
- Photography
- Politics
- Social reform
- Suffrage
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Women
- Women's organizations
- Record ID
- nmaahc_2010.60.1.27
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/fd575577053-a3af-4d69-b1de-3c39e9faf1e8
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