Voting at Forest Avenue School

Linked to Black Suffrage in the Twentieth Century

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Two African American men fill in their ballots at Forest Avenue School during a 1946 election. During that same year, the Atlanta Urban League registered 14,368 Black voters within a two-month period.

Courtesy of Special Collections & Archives, Georgia State University Library, Lane Brothers Commercial Photographers Photographic Collection.

Voting at Forest Avenue School

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