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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 · 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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Robert Parris Moses (January 23, 1935 – July 25, 2021) was an American educator and civil rights activist known for his work as a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) on voter education and registration in Mississippi during the Civil Rights Movement, and his co-founding of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.
- Robert Parris Moses, January 23, 1935, Harlem, New York City
Jul 15, 2011 · Originally published Jul 15, 2011 Last edited Aug 30, 2013. 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 ...
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.
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 […]
