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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Women stand outside of an apartment house.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Women Outside of Houses, circa 1975
Date Created
1972/1978
Description
Women stand outside of an apartment house.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Women stand outside of an apartment house.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Women Outside of Houses, circa 1975
Date Created
1972/1978
Description
Women stand outside of an apartment house.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan and Mrs. Lynnette Taylor, Frankie Freeman, and Bernice Turner concerning a Voter Education Project and Delta Sigma Theta collaboration. 12 pages.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Vernon E. Jordan and Mrs. Lynnette Taylor, 1969
Date Created
1969
Description
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan and Mrs. Lynnette Taylor, Frankie Freeman, and Bernice Turner concerning a Voter Education Project and Delta Sigma Theta collaboration. 12 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Voter registration, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Bernice Cook and Vernon Jordan requesting 30 copies of the Orangeburg Report for Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. 2 pages.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Bernice Cook and Vernon Jordan, July 25, 1968
Date Created
1968-07-25
Description
Correspondence between Bernice Cook and Vernon Jordan requesting 30 copies of the Orangeburg Report for Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. 2 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, Voter registration, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Brochure of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. with the cooperation of The Center for Human Relations and Community Studies of New York University offers a Pre-Regional Conference Sensitivity Training Workshop with the theme "What Does It Mean to be a Negro Woman in a Black Revolution?". 3 pages.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Pre-Regional Conference Sensitivity Training Workshop, July 18, 1968
Date Created
1968-07-18
Description
Brochure of Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. with the cooperation of The Center for Human Relations and Community Studies of New York University offers a Pre-Regional Conference Sensitivity Training Workshop with the theme "What Does It Mean to be a Negro Woman in a Black Revolution?". 3 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Voter registration, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Allie Hubert concerning a copy of the vita sheet and a glossy print photo for the Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. program. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Allie Hubert, May 25, 1968
Date Created
1968-05-25
Description
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Allie Hubert concerning a copy of the vita sheet and a glossy print photo for the Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. program. 1 page.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Voter registration, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Voter Education Project Director Vernon Jordan and Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Program Assistant Claudette L. Franklin concerning the Social Action luncheon at the Southwest Regional Conference. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Voter Education Project and Delta Sigma Theta, Inc., May 22, 1968
Date Created
1968-05-22
Description
Correspondence between Voter Education Project Director Vernon Jordan and Delta Sigma Theta, Inc. Program Assistant Claudette L. Franklin concerning the Social Action luncheon at the Southwest Regional Conference. 1 page.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Voter registration, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Miss Lynette Taylor with an enclosed list of resource people with public and private information to be used in your Regional Seminar. 4 pages.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Miss Lynette Taylor, May 16, 1968
Date Created
1968-05-16
Description
Correspondence between Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Miss Lynette Taylor with an enclosed list of resource people with public and private information to be used in your Regional Seminar. 4 pages.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Voter registration, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence between Frankie M. Freeman and Vernon Jordan confirming Jordan's participation as a panelist at a forum on Black Power at the ballot box. 1 page.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Correspondence Between Frankie M. Freeman and Vernon Jordan, May 4, 1968
Date Created
1968-05-04
Description
Correspondence between Frankie M. Freeman and Vernon Jordan confirming Jordan's participation as a panelist at a forum on Black Power at the ballot box. 1 page.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African Americans--Politics and government, Voter registration, African American women, Women--Societies and clubs, Greek letter societies
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
An unidentified man holding a "You Too Can Register to Vote" booklet talks with an older woman.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Man with Voting Booklet, circa 1970
Date Created
1966/1974
Description
An unidentified man holding a "You Too Can Register to Vote" booklet talks with an older woman.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Women hand our voter education flyers in front of a bus alongside John Lewis. Written on verso: John Lewis, circa 1965-1973, Alabama (?).
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Voter Education Bus, circa 1968
Date Created
1965/1973
Description
Women hand our voter education flyers in front of a bus alongside John Lewis. Written on verso: John Lewis, circa 1965-1973, Alabama (?).
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Political participation, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Education leaders hand out materials to young women. Written on verso: Project leaders distribute registration materials to young voters. Rev. Paul McDaniel, Mrs. Charlene Tilley [?].
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Voter Education Event, circa 1968
Date Created
1964/1971
Description
Education leaders hand out materials to young women. Written on verso: Project leaders distribute registration materials to young voters. Rev. Paul McDaniel, Mrs. Charlene Tilley [?].
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Political participation, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
A voter educator talks to a woman and her children outside of a dilapidated home.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Voting Advocacy, circa 1966
Date Created
1962/1968
Description
A voter educator talks to a woman and her children outside of a dilapidated home.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, African American children, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
A group of men and women stand outside. Two women hold a poster reading "Push me harder...register and vote". Written on verso: This marks the instruction that is given during our campaign each day.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Voter Education Group, circa 1966
Date Created
1962/1968
Description
A group of men and women stand outside. Two women hold a poster reading "Push me harder...register and vote". Written on verso: This marks the instruction that is given during our campaign each day.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
A woman sits and looks over paperwork in a grocery story with a male grocery employee standing beside her.
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
Voter Education Worker, circa 1966
Date Created
1962/1968
Description
A woman sits and looks over paperwork in a grocery story with a male grocery employee standing beside her.
Subject
African Americans--Civil rights, African American women's suffrage, Women's rights, African American women, Voter registration
Collection
Voter Education Project Organizational Records