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Bennett College For Women - "Operation Door knock", 1960

Greensboro, NC

Bennett students and Greensboro citizens register to vote as part of "Operation Door knock", 1960. It was a grassroots voter registration drive.

Source: Thomas F. Holgate Library Archives Department

In 1960, Bennett College For Women President Dr. Willa B. Player dedicated the College's Annual Homemaking Institute to Operation "Door Knock".

This was a door-to-door voter registration campaign that reached over a thousand people in Greensboro, NC.

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