Drinking Age Petition

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This petition supporting a change in the legal drinking age from eighteen to nineteen, signed by concerned "parents, educators, and friends of youth," was sent to the Georgia Senate in May 1980. The legal drinking age in Georgia was changed to nineteen later that year.

Courtesy of Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Herman E. Talmadge Collection, #HET-DOC-IX-432-48.

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