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Poll Power
Evan Faulkenbury
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Pädagogik
Beschreibung
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.
Kundenbewertungen
voter registration, Taconic Foundation, Robert F. Kennedy, Southern Regional Council, voting rights, Wiley Branton, civil rights movement, Harris Wofford, Tax Reform Act of 1969, Voting Rights Act of 1965, John Lewis, Voter Education Project, disfranchisement, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Vernon Jordan, Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), civil rights movement in Arkansas, civil rights movement in Mississippi, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Burke Marshall, civil rights, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), civil rights movement in Texas, Martin Luther King Jr., American South, VEP, Leslie Dunbar, National Urban League, philanthropy, Stephen Currier, civil rights movement in Alabama