Organizing Voter Registration

Title: Organizing Voter Registration

Author: Youth Citizenship Fund, Inc.

Publication: Washington, D.C.: Youth Citizenship Fund, Inc., 1972.

Description: Issued by the Youth Citizenship Fund (YCF) in 1972, this manual on planning and conducting voter-registration drives was a part of the first wave of voter registration efforts aimed at newly enfranchised young voters after the Twenty-Sixth Amendment lowered the voting age to 18. Stapled in blue card wrappers printed in black with photographic portraits on the front wrapper and images of voter registration posters on interior of rear wrapper. 8 x 6 inches; 72 pages. Trivial edgewear. Fine. Building on civil-rights-era voter registration efforts, YCF was a nonpartisan organization focused on registration of 18-to-21-year-old voters, including Black and bilingual voters.