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Title: The Cavalcade of America: "The Great Man Votes"
Description: Written by Peter Lyon. Stars Orson Welles and Ray Collins. Produced and Directed by Homer Fickett. Music composed and conducted by Robert Armbruster. John Hiestand, Gayne Whitman, anncrs. An effective demonstration of the power and the sanctity of the great American right to vote. It’s the story of an unsuccessful school teacher who is the sole voter in a vital city precinct. When politicians rush to flatter and console him, he shows that, despite his down-trodden state, he still has the old basic integrity.
Series: Entertainment -- Cavalcade of America
Subject: Cavalcade of America (Radio program); Historical Drama; Band Music; Right to Vote
Local Identifier: program_no:257
Type: Sound recordings
Physical Location: American University Library -- Special Collections
Collection: John R. Hickman Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/2041-101881

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In San Salvador
Date: 1982-03-28
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Men and women line up at a polling station to vote in the presidential and legislative elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 28, 1982. National elections were called to transition power from the Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, Revolutionary Government Junta, JRG, to a provisional civilian president. The Constituent Assembly elected Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja on May 2, 1982.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Voting; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0137_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96265
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Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In San Salvador
Date: 1982-03-28
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Men and women line up at a polling station to vote in the presidential and legislative elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 28, 1982. National elections were called to transition power from the Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, Revolutionary Government Junta, JRG, to a provisional civilian president. The Constituent Assembly elected Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja on May 2, 1982.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Voting; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0138_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96266
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In San Salvador
Date: 1982-03-28
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Men and women line up at a polling station to vote in the presidential and legislative elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 28, 1982. National elections were called to transition power from the Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, Revolutionary Government Junta, JRG, to a provisional civilian president. The Constituent Assembly elected Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja on May 2, 1982.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Voting; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_nb_0139_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96267
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In Sololá, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Indigenous Maya civilians stand in line to vote in Guatemala's national elections in Sololá, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0072_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96797
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In Sololá, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Indigenous Maya civilians stand in line to vote in Guatemala's national elections in Sololá, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0073_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96798
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In Sololá, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Indigenous Maya civilians stand in line to vote in Guatemala's national elections in Sololá, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0074_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96799
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In Sololá, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan Army soldiers oversee indigenous Maya civilians as they stand in line to vote in Guatemala's national elections, Sololá, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Military; Counterinsurgency; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0047_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96896
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Line Up To Vote In National Elections In Sololá, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-07
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Guatemalan Army soldiers oversee indigenous Maya civilians as they stand in line to vote in Guatemala's national elections, Sololá, Guatemala, March 7, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Military; Counterinsurgency; Indigenous peoples; Maya peoples; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt
Country: Guatemala
Local Identifier: guatemala_ct_0050_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96899
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Vote in Presidential Elections
Date: 1984-03-25
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A woman places her ballot after voting in the national presidential elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, March 25, 1984. José Napoleón Duarte of the Partido Demócrata Cristiano, PDC, was elected president after a second run-off election that ended on May 12, 1984. This victory can be largely attributed to the more than $3 million in aid, both overt and covert, provided by the United States to finance the elections in an effort to produce a moderate reformist government compliant with Washington’s interests.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; United States foreign policy; Cold War; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0181_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96648
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Civilians Waiting To Vote In Presidential Election
Date: 1982-04-29
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Men and women line up to vote in the presidential and legislative elections in San Salvador, El Salvador, April 29, 1982. The 1982 elections marked the first year that the Junta Revolucionaria de Gobierno, Revolutionary Government Junta of El Salvador, JRG, voluntarily ceded control to an elected civilian president since their installment through a military coup in 1979. The Legislative Assembly voted for Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja as the nation's next president.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; Politics; Government; Elections; Voting; Álvaro Alfredo Magaña Borja
Country: El Salvador
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0072_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96539
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Guatemalan Armed Forces Soldier Speaks With American Photographer Susan Meiselas In San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala
Date: 1982-03-08
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A Guatemalan Armed Forces soldier speaks with American photographer Susan Meiselas, right, as the Army soldiers collect ballot boxes from the country's national elections one day after the vote in San Andrés Itzapa, Guatemala, on March 8, 1982. Various opposition parties were running in the elections against the civilian candidate Ángel Aníbal Guevara, the chosen successor to outgoing president Fernando Romeo Lucas García. When Guevara was declared the winner, all opposition candidates protested electoral fraud. Two weeks later on March 23, 1982, General Efraín Ríos Montt led a three-man military junta in a coup d'état and all cabinet ministers were replaced.
Subject: Guatemala; Civil war; Politics; Elections; Voting; Military; Journalism; Foreign correspondents; Ángel Aníbal Guevara; Efraín Ríos Montt; Susan Meiselas
Country: Guatemala
Subject -- Personal Name: Susan Meiselas
Local Identifier: guatemala_nb_0075_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96800
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Haitian Presidential Candidate Evans Paul
Date: 2000-11-04
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Former mayor of Port-au-Prince, Evans Paul, stands on the balcony of his political party headquarters in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on November 4, 2000. Paul became an undeclared candidate for next year's Presidential election. He said the U.S. intervention in 1994 accomplished a lot but Haitians need to accomplish much more on their own.
Subject: Voting; Poverty; Haiti
Country: Haiti
Local Identifier: haiti_nc_0033_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Honduran Preasident Roberto Suazo Cordova
Date: 1981-11-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The Liberal Party candidate for president Roberto Suazo Cordova, center, is greeted by well-wishers during an election campaign stop in Tegucigalpa, Honduras in November 1981. Suazo Cordova and the Liberal Party won the nationwide election with 54% of the total vote.
Subject: Democracy; Vote; Security; Poverty
Country: Honduras
Subject -- Personal Name: Roberto Suazo Cordova
Local Identifier: honduras_nb_0019_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Kenneth Payne Interview, October 12, 2020
Date: October 12, 2020
Creator: Kenneth Payne; Sajel Swartz
Description: The overall objective is to create a deeper understanding of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the Summer of 2020 through the lens of modern Christian practices and ideals, with the hope of better understanding the motivations of those involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement and to evaluate the connection between religion, politics, and human rights. It should be noted that this interview took place in the year 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic with a remote interview process. The interview took place shortly before a contentious presidential election, and discusses a highly politicized social movement that (as of October 2020) peaked in the Summer of 2020.
Subject: Danville, KY; church; faith; Black Lives Matter; community; Louisville, KY; Centre College; connection; Lexington, KY; family; George Floyd; Breonna Taylor; Charles Booker; Operation Vote October; protest
Country: United States
Collection: Black Lives Matter and the Christian Faith Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2496
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Lavalas Party Candidate Dany Toussiant In Haiti
Date: 2000-05-16
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Haitian political candidate for Senate Dany Toussaint (1957-2021) of the Lavalas Party speaks on the phone before the national election in Port-au-Prince, Haiti on May 16, 2000. Toussaint served as a Haitian Army major and as the head of the Haitian police and personal body guard for Jean-Bertrand Aristede.
Subject: Politics; Security; Urban; Haiti; Voting
Country: Haiti
Local Identifier: haiti_nc_0030_web.tif
Collection: The Photographic Archive of Robert Nickelsberg
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Letter from Joe Baxer to Judith Arandes
Date: 1992-06-19
Creator: Baxter, Joe
Description: Letter from Joe Baxter, registrar of voters for the DC Board of Elections and Ethics, to Judith Arandes, ENLACE coordinator, informing Arandes about the office's recruitment drive for poll workers in the upcoming elections.
Subject: Gay activists -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American gays -- Washington (D.C.); Hispanic American lesbians -- Washington (D.C.); District of Columbia. Board of Elections and Ethics; Latino communities -- Washington (D.C.); Election workers -- Washington (D.C.); Voting -- Washington (D.C.); LGBTQ+ Latinx; Hispanic LGBTQ+ people
Local Identifier: SC_ENLACE_correspondence_0130
Type: letters (correspondence)
Collection: ENLACE records
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:98458
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: A line of people wait to vote, Nicaragua
Date: 1984-11-04
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: No. Nic. 11-4-84; Waiting to Vote; WFG-PG; 8-A
Subject: Elections -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua -- History -- 1979-1990; Voting -- Nicaragua
Country: Nicaragua
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0447
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66500
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: A line of people wait to vote while a man with a gun stands guard, Nicaragua
Date: 1984-11-04
Creator: Gentile, Bill
Description: No. Nic. 11-4-84; Waiting to Vote; WFG-PG; 8-A
Subject: Elections -- Nicaragua; Nicaragua -- History -- 1979-1990; Voting -- Nicaragua
Country: Nicaragua
Local Identifier: SC_Gentile_0448
Type: color slides
Collection: Bill Gentile Photojournalism Collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:66501
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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