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   May 23, 2024 · The Freedom Riders helped inspire participation in subsequent civil rights campaigns, including voter registration throughout the South, freedom schools, and the Black Power movement.

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   2 days ago · In 1970, Lewis became the director of the Voter Education Project (VEP), a position he held until 1977. Though initially a project of the Southern Regional Council, the VEP became an independent organization in 1971.

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   3 days ago · Southwest Voter Registration Education Project; Student Association for Voter Empowerment; The Voter Participation Center; U.S. Vote Foundation; United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce; Vote.org; Voto Latino; Women Engaged (led by Malika Redmond and focused on Georgia)

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   May 3, 2024 · After leaving the SNCC, Lewis, who had made his home in Atlanta, remained active in the civil rights movement, most notably as the director of the Voter Education Project.

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   May 15, 2024 · The Andrew Goodman Foundation works to make young voices and votes a powerful force in democracy. We support youth leadership development, voting accessibility, and social justice initiatives on campuses across the country with mini-grants to select institutions of higher learning and other financial assistance to student leaders.

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   May 23, 2024 · In 1974, the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, the first and largest non-partisan Latino voter participation organization in the US, started operations, with founder William C. Velasquez, and other Mexican-American political activists, discovering early that, despite the achievements of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, there remained...

8. thinkingoregon.org › 2024/05/16 › is-portlandsIs Portland’s Ranked Choice Voter Education Project Stumbling?

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   May 16, 2024 · First, Nov. 2023 – Feb. 2024 was supposed be spent identifying and engaging local voter education partners, building out infrastructure and collateral for different campaign focuses and working with election officials on ranked choice voting implementation.