Memory Bank: Drive focuses on minority voters

Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut participated on Sept. 24, 1983, in a march for Operation Big Vote, a coalition of labor and social groups created to increase voter registration among minority groups. Speakers at the rally included Hudnut, then-state Sen. Julia Carson and civil rights leader Thomas Brown. Operation Big Vote began as a national campaign launched in 1980 by 70 black organizations, including the NAACP, to try to encourage more minorities to vote in that year’s presidential race.

Source: The Washington Post, Indiana Historical Society

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