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Poll Power : The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South /
"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 for...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
[2019]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 490 | 0 | |a Justice, power, and politics | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Introduction -- Southern disfranchisement and the long origins of the Voter Education Project -- Setting up the Voter Education Project, 1959-1962 -- The Voter Education Project, 1962-1964 -- The second Voter Education Project, 1965-1969 -- The Tax Reform Act of 1969 and the undermining of the Voter Education Project -- Epilogue. | |
| 520 | |a "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. 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"--Publisher's description | ||
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