By Courtney Chartier, Assistant Head, Archives Research Center, Atlanta University Center
"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.
The Voter Education Project (VEP) served primarily as a funding source for voter registration and education programs around the South. VEP collected financial and administrative reports from the projects that they funded, but they also collected flyers, posters and other printed ephemera produced by those organizations, or produced for elections in those areas.
