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Background. Founding. Activities. Effect. See also. References. External links. Voter Education Project (VEP) raised and distributed foundation funds to civil rights organizations for voter education and registration work in the southern United States from 1962 to 1992.
Jan 31, 1992 · Voter Education Project (VEP) April 1, 1962 to January 31, 1992. The Voter Education Project (VEP) coordinated the voter registration campaigns of five civil rights groups—the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the ...
Jul 15, 2011 · Founded during the civil rights era, the Voter Education Project (VEP) was an Atlanta-based voting rights and voter education organization that remained active for thirty years. The VEP granted funds to organizations throughout the southern states to administer voter education programs and voter registration drives.
Freedom Schools. Freedom Schools were temporary, alternative, and free schools for African Americans mostly in the South. They were originally part of a nationwide effort during the Civil Rights Movement to organize African Americans to achieve social, political and economic equality in the United States. The most prominent example of Freedom ...
The project stressed voter education, registration, and electoral representation of blacks and minorities in the South. Beside reporting on race and voting, it awarded grants to nonpartisan agencies or groups to register disfranchised citizens, $900,000 by the end of 1964 alone.
Nov 5, 2019 · According to Faulkenbury, an assistant professor of history at SUNY Cortland, VEP is a little-known “collective of civil rights leaders working to fight Jim Crow at the ballot box.”. The reason little is known about the organization is “because its leaders deliberately kept their work in the shadows.”. “They did so,” Faulkenbury ...
The Voter Education Project (VEP) was a discreet civil rights agency that funded hundreds of African American voter registration campaigns throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. This digital history map represents data that the VEP collected on ...
