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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Voter_Education_ProjectVoter Education Project - Wikipedia

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   Contents. hide. (Top) 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.

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   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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   What is the voter education project?

   • “And by following the civil rights movement’s money trail, I came across the Voter Education Project (VEP).” 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.”

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   What is Voter Education Project (VEP)?

   • To raise, administer, and distribute the money, the NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee formed the Voter Education Project (VEP) under the auspices of the non-profit Southern Regional Council.

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   What did the VEP do?

   • The VEP continued funding voter registration, education, and research efforts in the South until 1992 under subsequent directors Randolph Blackwell, Vernon Jordan, John Lewis and Ed Brown. The VEP helped make great inroads in the registration of voters, especially in rural areas.

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   Why did the VEP stop registering new voters?

   • VEP-funded projects had early successes in communities such as Albany, Georgia, where a VEP grant helped the Albany Movement register more than 500 new voters in two weeks during 1962. However, in early 1963 the VEP threatened to suspend SCLC from the program because of inadequate reporting on the use of grant funds.

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4. www.wikiwand.com › en › Voter_Education_ProjectVoter Education Project - Wikiwand

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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.

5. www.georgiaencyclopedia.org › articles › historyVoter Education Project - New Georgia Encyclopedia

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   Jul 15, 2011 · Origins Independence. 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.

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   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 ...

7. www.cambridge.org › core › booksVoter Education Project (VEP) - The Cambridge Guide to ...

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   Summary. Funded by private foundations, NAACP, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), and Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) formed VEP to enlarge the right to vote. It operated in the Southern Regional Council (Atlanta) from 1962 to 1965, when the Voting Rights Act (VRA) energized its ...

8. ncph.org › project › mapping-the-voter-educationMapping the Voter Education Project (VEP) | National Council ...

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   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 ...