A Guide to the Erie Spencer Decosta Papers 1921
A Collection in
Special Collections and Archives
Collection Number 1984-26
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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.