Flashback Photos: A look back at voting in Georgia

Flashback Photos

Flashback Photos: A look back at voting in Georgia

PHOTOS: We examine voting over the years in metro Atlanta and the rest of the state.

1969 -- The Lenox Square Theatre marquee carries a message to voters. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1960 -- A First National Bank voter drive implores Georgians to head to the polls. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1946 -- A man votes at the Forest Avenue School in Atlanta. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1956 -- Segregated lines of potential voters waiting to register at the Fulton County Courthouse. VAN TOOLE / AJC FILE

1964 -- Voters wait in line to cast their ballots in the presidential election. Here's the original caption: "It was about 7:02 a.m. Tuesday and this was the voting scene at Spring Street School. 1) They fill out slip. 2) Slip information checked with registration list. 3) Prospective voter receives number. 4) Person gives number to official to vote." CHARLES D. JACKSON / AJC FILE

1946 -- Kent Nelson accompanies his father, Frank, into the voting booth at Forest Avenue School in Atlanta. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1946 -- Casting ballots in the race for Fifth District, United States Congress. Black voters were crucial to Helen Douglas Mankin's electoral victory. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1946 -- Original caption: "In the College Inn, Georgia Tech students sing their famous 'Ramblin Wreck' song for cover girl Anita Colby, who made a tour of the Tech campus Tuesday to encourage the students to get out and register for voting." GUY HAYES / AJC FILE

1946 -- A general election sample ballot from Fulton County. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

1957 -- Original caption: "Target and Matisse can't vote -- but you can. Kathleen Croxton leads sporting dogs in Tuesday's parade." FRANK BEATTY / AJC FILE

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1969 -- The Lenox Square Theatre marquee carries a message to voters. LANE BROS. PHOTOGRAPHIC COLLECTION / GSU

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