Sandy Newman

CTL-E-4632 · Person · other · 1990s-contemporary

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Civil-rights activist and national director of Project Vote; recruited Barack Obama to direct the Illinois 1992 voter-registration drive.

Relationships

Project Vote — affiliated with
Civil-rights activist Sandy Newman was Project Vote's national director; he recruited Obama to run the Chicago drive.

Sources

NPR — 'Partisan Divide Over Voting Rights Has Intensified in Obama Era' (2014-10-21)

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