Black Folks At The Polls

Three Black women sit at a table and write on pieces of paper. Above them signs read "Get a piece of the action. Register now TO VOTE. Board of elections commissioners. City of Chicago." and "Place of registration September 19-23 1973"
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A long dense line of well-dressed Black voters stand before a table and behind a white string. At the front of the line, an elder submits a ballot to a few people who sit and stand behind the table.
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A long line of Black voters stand in front and on the steps of a wooden building named "The sugar shack".
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A contemporary photo shows Black voters lined up in the corridor and doorframe of a hallway.
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Surrounded by other voters, a Black man sits at a table and raises his right hand as he speaks with a woman sitting across from him.
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In front of two others, Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King approach a labeled ballot box. Martin Luther King Jr., midsentence, motions to place his ballot in the box.
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Smiling and side by side, Michelle and Barak Obama fill out voting ballots behind several privacy screens.
Image: Barack Obama Casts His Vote For President
Democratic presidential nominee U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) and his wife Michelle vote November 4, 2021 in Chicago, Illinois.
Five well-dressed Black elder voters line up in front of a two women typing on typewriters.
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Holding umbrellas, a long line of Black women voters in overcoats and kerchiefs stand in the rain on a sidewalk.
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A contemporary photo shows two Black women voters filling out their ballots behind privacy screens decorated with American flags and the words "VOTE". Between them a little Black girl looks up at them.
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