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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 · 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 Congress of Racial Equality, and ...
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Jul 15, 2011 · It also functioned as a research center and became known as an authoritative source for statistics on southern elections and voter registration in general, as well as for trend analysis, studies on specific issues, and statistics broken down by race and gender.
Voter Education Project (VEP) Raymond Gavins, Duke University, North Carolina; Book: The Cambridge Guide to African American History; Online publication: 05 March 2016; Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316216453.298
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 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 […]
Mar 9, 2017 · His first book will chronicle the Voter Education Project during the 1960s and 1970s. Follow him on Twitter @evanfaulkenbury . [1] Wiley A. Branton to James Forman, Re: VEP 2-5, May 4, 1962, Reel 173, Southern Regional Council Papers (hereafter SRC Papers); and VEP Summary Report, “SNCC Program in Mississippi,” May 11 – July 31, 1962 ...
