A Guide to the Erie Spencer Decosta Papers 1921 DeCosta, Spencer Erie 1984-26

A Guide to the Erie Spencer Decosta Papers 1921

A Collection in
Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number 1984-26


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Repository
Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University
Collection number
1921
Title
Evie Spencer DeCosta Papers, 1921
Physical Characteristics
2 items.
Collector
Evie Spencer DeCosta.
Language
English
Abstract
Photographs of "The First Colored Women Voters Club of Ettrick". Acc. #1984-26.

Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

The Evie Spencer DeCosta Papers, 1984-26, Special Collections and Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, VA.

Acquisition Information

A gift from the DeCosta Family in 1984.

Biographical/Historical Information

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".

Scope and Content Information

Two photographs of the First African American females to vote in Ettrick, Virginia, about 1920.

Box List

Box-folder 1:1
Photograph
Box-folder 1:2
Photograph