Hill, Oliver W. (1907-2007) Take Heed! Pay Attention!!
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09822 Author/Creator: Hill, Oliver W. (1907-2007) Place Written: Richmond, Virginia Type: Printed document Date: 5 May 1948 Pagination: 1 p. ; 22.8 x 15 cm. Order a Copy
One flyer entitled, "Take Heed Pay Attention!!" distributed by members of various committees from Richmond, Virginia, dated May 5, 1948. Related to encouraging veterans and voters turning 21 years old to vote for Oliver W. Hill, an African-American candidate for State Legislature.
Oliver W. Hill (1907-2007) was a civil rights lawyer that worked toward equal pay, voting rights, transportation and to end "separate but equal." In 1949, he was the first African American elected to City Council since Reconstruction.
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Take Heed! Pay Attention!!
The MONTH of April
has been designated and set apart by the SUFFRAGE COMMITTEE of the Richmond Civic Council as POLL TAX MONTH.
What we do, must be done quickly, this is our decisive moment. MAY 5, is the dead line to pay taxes in order to be able to vote in the AUGUST Primary.
Mr. OLIVER W. HILL, Attorney
A Negro, is running this year as representative to the STATE LEGISLATURE . Every Negro in Richmond eligible to qualify to vote will want to share in this opportunity and privilege to elect a Negro to this AUGUST body in which there has not been a Negro for the past forty or fifty years.
Veterans and Persons becoming 21 years old this year
can make a GREAT CONTRIBUTION to the ELECTION of our candidate to the General Assembly of Va. Be it remembered that Veterans who have been out of the armed service less than one year will not be required to pay POLL TAX. Your registration qualifies you to vote. VETERANS who have been out of the service more than 1 year will be required to pay only 1 years POLL TAX and REGISTER. VETERANS who have been out of the service more than two years will be required to pay only two years POLL TAX and REGISTER, (EASY). Let every VETERAN RALLY for the one great thing for which he laid his life upon the SACRIFICIAL ALTAR of his COUNTRY. Namely: A VOICE in GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS.
INSTRUCTIONS
POLL TAX for three years will be $ 4.98, payable in CITY HALL ROOM 106. You go to ROOM 410, CITY HALL to REGISTER.
Dr. W. L. RANSOME,
President of the Richmond Civic Council.
Dr. J. M. TINSLEY,
Chairman of Suffrage Committee.
Rev. D.J. Bradford,
Chairman of Executive Committee
AMOS C. CLARK,
Executive Director of the Suffrage Campaign,
now has his office with the
QUALITY SERVICE INCORPORATED
18 E. Clay St., at First St.
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