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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Archival Collections
1945/1955
Written on verso: Madora Cobb.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Violet M. Harrison, 79 Dale Street, Roxbury, Mass.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1940/1950
Written on verso: Ruth Etta Hawkins.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Alice Gufford.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: E. Jamhett.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Gwendolyn Harrison.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Meacdes [?] Baones [?].
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
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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
1945/1955
Written on verso: Mrs. Dayse J. Dixon.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
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
1945/1955
Written on verso: Gladys Frances Barker.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Catherine E. Jackson.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1945/1955
Written on verso: Selma Hortense Burke, January, 1950.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
1947
Written on verso: Julia Ann Fields.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
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
1945/1955
Written on verso: Pamlest Ande', 647 E. 50th Place Chicago, Illinois, c/o A. Gayle.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
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
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
1945/1955
Written on verso: Hulda Darlyne Atkinson, 322 Meerscheidt St. San Antonio, Texas.
African American women, African American artists, Portraits and people
Voter Education Project Organizational Records
