Object Details
- Caption
- This document is part of a scrapbook that was compiled in 1956 and 1957 by Frances Albrier during her term as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The scrapbook highlights the Chapter’s efforts to register voters and educate Bay Area residents on the importance of voting as a part of the Citizenship Education Project which was jointly sponsored by the NCNW and the National Urban League.
- Description
- A newspaper clipping with a photograph depicting women associated with the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women standing along a motorcade route holding signs urging citizens to vote. The clipping is located between pages six (6) and seven (7) in Frances Albrier's scrapbook (2010.60.1).
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Created by
- San Francisco Independent, founded 1955
- Photograph by
- Cox Studio, American, founded 1957
- Subject of
- Lurline White, American
- Sallie Edwards, American
- Lulu Carter, American
- Illa Buckner, American, 1882 - 1978
- Beulah Staton, American
- Eddye Keaton Williams, American
- Margaret Buford, American
- Cathryn Williams, American
- Esther Wise, American
- Dola Miller II, French
- Frances M. Albrier, American, 1898 - 1987
- San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women, founded 1945
- National Council of Negro Women, founded 1935
- Date
- September 1956
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Frances Albrier Collection
- Medium
- ink on newsprint
- Dimensions
- H x W: 6 1/2 × 6 1/4 in. (16.5 × 15.9 cm)
- Type
- clippings
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