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Poll Power - The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South (Paperback)
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Poll Power - The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South (Paperback)
Series: Justice, Power and Politics
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Creating and sustaining a social movement costs money. In the early
1960s, after years of grassroots organizing, civil rights activists
convinced non-profit foundations to donate in support of voter
education and registration efforts. One result was the Voter
Education Project (VEP), which formally began in 1962, showed
far-reaching results almost immediately, and organized the
groundwork that eventually led to the Voting Rights Act of 1965. In
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 and segregationists 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 the crucial role
philanthropy, outside funding, and tax policy can play in the
lifecycle of social movements.
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