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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.

Voter registration --- Civil rights movements --- Electoral registration --- Registration, Electoral --- Registration of voters --- Voters, Registration of --- Election law --- History --- Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council) --- Voter Education Project (Atlanta, Ga.) --- Southern Regional Council --- Southern Regional Council. --- V.E.P. --- VEP (Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council))