| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ruth R. Young, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Ruth R. Young. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Martha Spencer, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Martha Spencer. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Vivian[?] Dulley Sykes, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Vivian[?] Dulley Sykes, 5058 Kensington, Saint Louis, MO. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Mildred Riasinea [?], circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Mildred Riasinea [?]. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Peari [?] I. Sewell, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Peari [?] I. Sewell, Box 2374 Prairie View, A and M College, Prarie View, Texas. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Elizabeth B. Williamson, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Elizabeth B. Williamson. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Lillian Williams, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Lillian Williams. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| VEP Public Service Announcement, 1983 | 1905--06-05 | The Voter Education Project urges people to attend their statewide Voting Rights Conference at Southern University to address the low voter turnout of Black registered voters in Louisiana, where only 143,000 of 850,000 eligible Black voters voted in the 1982 elections. 1 page. | Political participation, Voting, Voter registration | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "VEP Holds National Conference on Black Colleges and Universities", 1983 | 1905--06-05 | Draft of press release on upcoming conference on Black colleges and universities. 1 page. | African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Political participation, African Americans--Politics and government, African American universities and colleges | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "Bill Gray Will Headline the Twenty First Dinner of the Voter Education Project", 1983 | 1905--06-05 | Press release on Bill Gray addressing the 21st dinner of the VEP at the Onmi in Atlanta. 1 page. | African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Political participation, African Americans--Politics and government | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Johnnie Scales, circa 1900 | 1895/1905 | Written on verso: Johnnie Scales. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "Statement of the Mississippi Voting Rights Tour," 1971 | The statement expresses the purpose and goals of the tour. | Special events, Voter Registration, Voting | Voter Education Project Organizational Records | |
| John Lewis Speech at Olive Branch, June 19, 1975 | Voter Education Project Organizational Records | |||
| John Lewis VEP Tour Speech at Chase City, Virginia, September 21-23, 1972 | Voter Education Project Organizational Records | |||
| VEP Seminar in Practical Politics, Atlanta, GA, 1973 | Voter Education Project Organizational Records | |||
| John Lewis, "Why Vote?" Speech at Atlanta Junior College, November 1, 1976 | Voter Education Project Organizational Records | |||
| John Lewis, Nashville, Tennessee, circa 1971 | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
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.
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