Poll power : the Voter Education Project and the movement for the ballot in the American South /

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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 for...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Faulkenbury, Evan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Collection:Justice, power, and politics.
Sujets:
Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
Voter registration > Southern States.
Civil rights movements > Southern States.
Mouvements des droits de l'homme > États-Unis (Sud)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > Elections.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Civil rights movements
Voter registration
Southern States
Internet resources.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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