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Voter Education Project. 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. [1] [2] The project was federally endorsed by the Kennedy administration in hopes that the organizations of the ongoing Civil ...
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 the National Urban League—under the auspices of ...
Jul 15, 2011 · Voter Education Project. 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.
An ambitious project to fund the black freedom movement built itself on a pedagogical model—education as activism. Between March 1962 and October 1964, the VEP, led by Wiley A. Branton, helped register approximately 688,000 black southerners after spending $855,836.59 on 129 voter registration projects throughout the 11 states of the Old ...
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 ...
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 ...
