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The Evie Spencer DeCosta Papers, 1984-26, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.
A gift from the DeCosta Family in 1984.
Evie Lee (Carpenter) DeCosta was an instructor in Agriculture at the Virginia Normal and Industrial Institute from 1919-1920. After it became legal for women to vote nine young women from Virginia State duly registered and cast their votes. To record this day they posed for photographs at the Ettrick Courthouse and Styled themselves, "The First Colored Women Voters of Ettrick".
Two photographs of the First African American females to vote in Ettrick, Virginia, about 1920.