SVREP: Photos from the field

November 29, 2017

Over the course of the last year and a half, I’ve had the chance to read and discover so much about how Southwest Voter Registration Education Project registered thousands of voters across 5 states. It was a story told through travel receipts, statistical analysis, and endless amounts of correspondence. But as we begin to wrap up our project, I wanted to look back on how the volunteers told their own stories, with photos.

At the beginning of the project, it seemed that the question I answered most was about the quantity of pictures included in the collection. Although there are plenty of promotional photos, fliers and brochures, photos of the volunteers registering voters in action are a bit harder to come by. Fortunately, Leah and I have found and preserved a handful of photos that were taken during actual voter registration events across the Southwest.

These photos were included in the individual project reports that groups sent in as their project summaries. Because only a handful of project coordinators sent in photos, I wanted to make sure I could share them.

Harris County, Houston, Texas 1981