The Voter Education Project (VEP) began in 1962 as part of the Southern Regional Council. Initially VEP granted funds to civil rights organizations to support voter education, voter registration drives, and voting-related research. In 1964, Vernon Jordan, the second executive director of the VEP, expanded the programs goals to include citizenship training, voter education, and leadership training in the southern United States, while continuing to provide funds to independent voter and civil rights groups, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the League of Women Voters. The VEP’s work with the League of Women Voters is highlighted in the materials below. In 1971, VEP under the leadership of John Lewis, became an independent organization and functioned as a research center and became known as an authoritative source for statistics on southern elections and voter registration in general. Lewis also forged the VEP into an activist organization, launching Voter Mobilization Tours with Georgia state legislator and civil rights advocate Julian Bond. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
Sep 4, 2020

Voter Education Project Organizational Records

The Voter Education Project (VEP) began in 1962 as part of the Southern Regional Council. Initially VEP granted funds to civil rights organizations to support voter education, voter registration drives, and voting-related research. In 1964, Vernon Jordan, the second executive director of the VEP, expanded the programs goals to include citizenship training, voter education, and leadership training in the southern United States, while continuing to provide funds to independent voter and civil rights groups, including the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and the League of Women Voters. The VEP’s work with the League of Women Voters is highlighted in the materials below. In 1971, VEP under the leadership of John Lewis, became an independent organization and functioned as a research center and became known as an authoritative source for statistics on southern elections and voter registration in general. Lewis also forged the VEP into an activist organization, launching Voter Mobilization Tours with Georgia state legislator and civil rights advocate Julian Bond.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu.
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Title Date Created Description Subject Collection
Navee Thomas, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Navee Thomas. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Anna Maxwell, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Anna Maxwell. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Katie Thompson, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Katie Thompson. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Sally Lash Simms, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Mrs. Sally Lash Simms, Winston-Salem, NC. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Marguerite F. Randall, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Marguerite F. Randall (Mrs. James A. Randall), Prarie View College, Prarie View, Texas. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Desdonna [?] Wade, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Dear Sirs: I am at the present time in bed with a cold. If you would accept this photo temporarily. I could forward it to you before the first of the month. A regulation identification photo. Sincerely, Desdonna [?] Wade. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Unidentified Artist, circa 1950 1945/1955 Unidentified artist. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Bessie M. Stanley, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Bessie M. Stanley, 502 11th Street, Palmetto, Florida. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Anna McLean, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Anna McLean, 457 West 143 Street New York, New York. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Althena Thomas, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Althena Thomas. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Jean Shy, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Jean Shy, Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Teresa Stoats, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Teresa Stoats, Manual Training School, Bordentown, New Jersey. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Maude Crawford Blackwood, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Maude Crawford Blackwood, State Teachers College, Elizabeth City, North Carolina, Honorably discharges from U. S. Army, December 6, 1944. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
George Green, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Miss George Green, 950 Washington Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Dorothy Crawford, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Mrs. Dorothy Crawford, 835 Clay Street, Topeka, Kansas. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Irene V. Clark, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Irene V. Clark, 4245 South Parkway, Chicago, Illinois. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Lola M. Jackson, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Please accept this photograph. I did not have a chance to get another made on such short notice. If you refuse my work, please send it back along with this picture. Wish me luck! Lola M. Jackson. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Clarissa [?] J. Holmes, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Clarissa [?] J. Holmes. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Helen Cornele Cuyjet, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Helen Cornele Cuyjet. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Juanita Newberry, circa 1950 1945/1955 Written on verso: Juanita Newberry. African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people Voter Education Project Organizational Records