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Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South

Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South

Faulkenbury, Evan

Hardcover

Series: Justice, Power, and Politics

Black American HistoryGeneral Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 1469651319
ISBN13: 9781469651316
Publisher: Univ Of North Carolina Pr
Published: May 13 2019
Pages: 216
Weight: 1.13
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
The civil rights movement required money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists convinced nonprofit foundations to donate in support of voter education and registration efforts. One result was the Voter Education Project (VEP), which, starting in 1962, showed far-reaching results almost immediately and organized the groundwork that eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In African American communities across the South, the VEP catalyzed existing campaigns; it paid for fuel, booked rallies, bought food for volunteers, and paid people to canvass neighborhoods. Despite this progress, powerful conservatives in Congress weaponized the federal tax code to undercut the important work of the VEP.

Though local power had long existed in the hundreds of southern towns and cities that saw organized civil rights action, the VEP was vital to converting that power into political motion. Evan Faulkenbury offers a much-needed explanation of how philanthropic foundations, outside funding, and tax policy shaped the southern black freedom movement.

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