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.

Written on verso: Violet M. Harrison, 79 Dale Street, Roxbury, Mass.

Written on verso: Alice Gufford.

Written on verso: Gwendolyn Harrison.

Written on verso: Miss S. J. Edmonson Box 584 Covington, GA.

Written on verso: Mrs. Willie M. Long, Box 373, Conway South Carolina.

Written on verso: Catherine E. Jackson.

Written on verso: Julia Ann Fields.

Written on verso: Pamlest Ande', 647 E. 50th Place Chicago, Illinois, c/o A. Gayle.

Written on verso: E. DeLouis Daurs, 1126 E. Jefferson Street, Phoenix, Arizona.