Clarence A. Bacote

Linked to Black Suffrage in the Twentieth Century

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As chair of the Atlanta All-Citizens Registration Committee in 1946, Clarence A. Bacote (right) increased the number of Black registered voters in Atlanta from 6,976 to 21,244.

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