| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "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 | |||
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Ruth Etta Hawkins, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Ruth Etta Hawkins. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| S. J. Edmonson, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Miss S. J. Edmonson Box 584 Covington, GA. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Willie M. Long, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Mrs. Willie M. Long, Box 373, Conway South Carolina. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Dorothy Crawford, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | 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 |
| Willie M. Long, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Mrs. Willie Long, PO Box 373, Conway South Carolina. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| E. DeLouis Daurs, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: E. DeLouis Daurs, 1126 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Marian Dupree Lewis, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Marian Dupree Lewis, 12 Seabrook Road, Fayetteville, NC. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Dorothy Baylor Anderson, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Dorothy Baylor Anderson, 59 East 46th street Apt. 5B Chicago, IL. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Unidentified Artist, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Photo sent in by Virgil Bryant. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| Dolores Clinton, circa 1945 | 1940/1950 | Written on verso: Dolores Clinton. | African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people | 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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