| Title | Date Created | Description | Subject | Collection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Your Future Could Be Up in the Air, Register and Vote!", circa 1978 | 1975/1979 | Sketch of a Southeast Arkansas Voter Registration Project flyer from Crosett, AR, depicting a supreme court member balancing a house with the "Bakke Decision" hovering over. The Bakke Decision was were the Supreme Court ruled that a university's use of racial "quotas" in its admissions process was unconstitutional, but a school's use of "affirmative action" to accept more minority applicants was constitutional in some circumstances. 1 page. | African Americans--Civil rights, Political posters, Voter registration, Voting | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "Keep the Wolves from Your Door, Register and Vote!", circa 1978 | 1975/1979 | Sketch of a Southeast Arkansas Voter Registration Project flyer from Crosett, AR, depicting wolves at a door representing welfare, oppression, unemployment, etc. to those who don't heed the call to represent one selves and vote. 1 page. | African Americans--Civil rights, Political posters, Voter registration, Voting | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "The Hand That Drops the Ballot Rules His World", circa 1978 | 1975/1979 | Sketch of a Southeast Arkansas Voter Registration Project flyer from Crosett, AR, depicting a hand dropping a ballot in a voting box, encouraging voters to vote for their issues and causes. 1 page. | African Americans--Civil rights, Political posters, Voter registration, Voting | Voter Education Project Organizational Records |
| "This Is No Time To Strike Out, Register and Vote", circa 1976 | 1974/1979 | Southeast Arkansas Voter Registration Project depicting a baseball player. 1 page. | African Americans--Civil rights, Political posters, Voter registration, Voting | 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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