TY - BOOK ID - 78678059 TI - Poll power PY - 2019 SN - 1469651327 1469651335 9781469651323 9781469651330 9781469651316 1469651319 9781469652009 1469652005 9798890855596 PB - Chapel Hill DB - UniCat KW - Voter registration KW - Civil rights movements KW - Electoral registration KW - Registration, Electoral KW - Registration of voters KW - Voters, Registration of KW - Election law KW - History KW - Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council) KW - Voter Education Project (Atlanta, Ga.) KW - Southern Regional Council KW - Southern Regional Council. KW - V.E.P. KW - VEP (Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78678059 AB - The civil rights movement required money. In the early 1960s, after years of grassroots organising, 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 organised 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. ER -