Photos: Voters at the “Sugar Shack” in Peachtree, Alabama, 1966 Within months of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 being signed, a quarter of a million African American voters were registered to vote. This photograph of a polling place in Alabama reflects the unprecedented numbers of voters that turned out.

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Voters at the “Sugar Shack” in Peachtree, Alabama, 1966 Within months of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 being signed, a quarter of a million African American voters were registered to vote. This photograph of a polling place in Alabama reflects the unprecedented numbers of voters that turned out.

African Americans
"flock to this polling place in rural, Blackbelt, Alabama 5/3,
as they vote in large numbers for the first time in history.
Typical of rural polling places is the “Sugar Shack” a small
store in Wilcox County where Negroes out number whites almost 3 to 1.”

Owner of original Photograph 306-PSD-66-1887; "Negroes at polling place, as they vote in large numbers for the first time in history." Peachtree, Alabama.; 5/3/1966; Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life, ca. 1953 - ca. 1994; Records of the United States Information Agency, Record Group 306; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/voters-peachtree-alabama, June 29, 2020]

Linked to Robert Brown; John Gilbert Moore, Sr

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