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Kansas Equal Suffrage

Date: 1912
Description: Depiction of a man and a woman each putting their votes into a ballot box, touting equal suffrage: "For a better government of the people, by the people, a...
Manuscript

Racine Branch NAACP Letter

Date: 1957
Description: Draft of a letter from the Racine Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People regarding voter registration and organized votin...
Poster

Register, Vote For A Voice!

Date: 
Description: A poster encouraging people to register and vote. At the top is a circle with a black hand and a white hand clasped in friendship. Below is the text, "Regi...
Photograph

Union Registration Effort

Date: 1950
Description: For a 1950 election, the United Packinghouse Workers Union sponsored a free bus to transport people to the voter registration site.
Photograph

My Early Vote

Date: 10 21 2020
Description: A woman is standing in front of two people sitting behind tables with plexiglass barriers up.
Photograph

Frame 78: Line Up with Signs

Date: 1964
Description: A group of young people on a sidewalk protesting with signs in support of the MFDP.
Poster

Register to Vote Flyer

Date: 1965
Description: A poster created by The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party depicting a group of African American people standing together and holding hands. The text rea...
Photograph

Military Spending Costs Madison Jobs!

Date: 1979
Description: Bus poster with a stylized image of a person and the text: "Military Spending Costs Madison Jobs! Vote Yes April, 3. Authorized and Paid for by the Peace a...
Poster

Register Your Discontent. Vote.

Date: 01 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to register to vote. Includes a picture of a barefoot man with a guitar and blue jeans (a college student, hippie, musician...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Female

Date: 10 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Poster

Register to Vote Poster, Male

Date: 1972
Description: Poster encouraging young people to vote in the 1972 presidential election. Text reads, "Maybe they gave you the right to vote because they thought you'd ne...
Poster

We Are Americans

Date: 
Description: Poster title at top reads: "We are Americans" and text below reads: "We Vote." Text at bottom reads: "CIO National Political Action Committee." The blue ba...
Poster

Register

Date: 1944
Description: Poster of a man's arm with his shirt sleeve pushed up. He is holding a yellow card in his fingers with the text, "The Ballot is a power in your hands. Use ...

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