Casting ballots
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Photograph of an African American voter in Atlanta, Georgia presenting his ballots to a seated election worker on June 3, 1946. Two African American women and an African American man stand near him. A man in the background stands in a voting booth. The election worker, a white woman, sits next to a ballot box. Rows of chairs stand behind her. During 1946, the Atlanta Urban League registered 14,368 black voters within a two-month period.
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Digital Library of Georgia