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

by Evan Faulkenbury

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469652005
• ISBN13: 9781469652009
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"