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[[top clipping]] "A Voteless People Is A Hopeless People" [[Photo of African American women standing in line with posters encouraging people to vote]] [[underlined]]The San Francisco chapter of the National Council of Negro Women launched their Citizenship Education project[[//underlined]] here last week with a motorcade which toured the streets urging citizens to vote. Some of the women who participated in the motorcade are shown above with their placards. Left to right, are Mesdames Lurline White, Sally Edwards, Lulu Carter, Illa Buckner, Beuiah Staton, Eddye Keaton Williams, Margaret Buford, Cathryn Williams,, Esther Wise and Dola Miller, II. The project is being sponsored in 8 major cities jointly by the NCNW and the National Urban League. -Cox Studio Photo[[written below the article, S.F. independent]] [[bottom clipping]] [[photo of African Americans of all ages holding signs and encouraging people to vote]] EVEN THE YOUNGEST MEMBERS of the community lent support to the motorcade held last weekend as a reminder to all adult citizens to register and vote. The motorcade was sponsored by the [[underlined]]local chapter of the National Council of Negro Women to stimulate interest in this project.[[//underlined]] Some of the participants are left to right, Mrs. Ida Mae Hughes, Mrs. Gertrude Gumbs (who is receiving the wholehearted cooperation of her tiny granddaughter), Joan Blalock, an unidentified young worker, Gloria Mitchell and Yvette Hammond. The youngsters are little Dola S. Miller, III, Jovanah Williams, and Joan Miller. The Miller children are visiting from Paris. -Staff photo by Cox Studio. [[written in the bottom left corner, 2010.60.1.14]]