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Atlanta Negro Voters League, 1949

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Photograph of members of the Atlanta Negro Voters League posing in front of the Butler Street YMCA in Atlanta, Georgia, 1949. They stand on both flights of the double staircase leading to the entrance, and members stand in a line below the stairs as well.The Atlanta Negro Voters League was a bipartisan political organization started by black leaders in 1949 to form a united front to maximize the strength of the black vote. The group used the Butler Street YMCA as its headquarters.
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