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James L. Felder has spent his life working for justice as a civil rights activist and South Carolina legislator. A native of Sumter, S.C., Felder spent his early adult years in Washington, D.C., and has lived in Columbia, S.C. since 1967. Felder received an undergraduate degree from Clark Atlanta University and earned his Juris doctor from the ...
As a result of meetings brokered by the Kennedy Administration with large liberal foundations, the Voter Education Project (VEP) was formed in early 1962 to channel funds into voter drives in the eleven Southern states. Inducted by sit-in campaigns and hardened in the Freedom Rides, many student activists saw VEP as a government attempt to co ...
The organization created the Voter Education Project (VEP), building on an idea from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the Kennedy administration; the project was run by the SRC from its inception on April 1, 1962, until it was made an independent organization on June 1, 1971.
The Independent Voter Project ( IVP) is a 501 (c) (4) United States nonprofit organization. It launched in 2006 with a $1 million grant from John Moores. IVP seeks to re-engage nonpartisan voters and promote nonpartisan election reform through initiatives, litigation, and voter education.
SCOPE Project. The Summer Community Organization and Political Education (SCOPE) Project of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was a voter registration civil rights initiative conducted from 1965 to 1966 in 120 counties in six southern states. The goal was to recruit white college students to help prepare African Americans for ...
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The Voter Education Project (VEP) was an initiative to register African American voters that began in 1962, largely as an effort by Pres. John F. Kennedy and attorney general Robert F. Kennedy to co-opt the nonviolent direct action campaigns of the civil rights movement. In the wake of the 1961 Freedom Rides, the Kennedys hoped […]
