• Voter Education Project (VEP) raised and distributed foundation funds to civil rights organizations for voter education and registration work in the southern...
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    The historical trends in voter turnout in the United States presidential elections have been determined by the gradual expansion of voting rights from...
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  • The Southwest Voter Registration Education Project (SVREP), founded in 1974, is the oldest and largest non-partisan Latino voter participation organization...
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    nonpartisan voters and promote nonpartisan election reform through initiatives, litigation, and voter education. The Independent Voter Project has a 501(c)(3)...
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    position as the executive director of the Voter Education Project in August 1977 and worked towards voter equality for minorities. In this role, she...
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    1962, with the support of the Voter Education Project, SNCC committed to the registration and mobilization of black voters in the Deep South. Affiliates...
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    from the original on July 18, 2020. Retrieved April 20, 2020. "Voter Education Project". Georgia Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on June 2, 2020...
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    NAACP, he moved to the Southern Regional Council and then to the Voter Education Project. In 1970, Jordan became executive director of the United Negro...
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    sat outside the polling booth and had his picture taken with "would-be" voters. The polaroid ploy worked so well in the campaign that Patrick J. Kennedy...
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    Caroline Kennedy (category New York City Department of Education)
    original on February 23, 2012. Young, Shannon. "Caroline Kennedy urges voters to support Obama". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on July...
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  • the Voter Education Project (VEP), building on an idea from U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy during the Kennedy administration; the project was...
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    born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days before Bridges' birth. The...
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    each voter and to accept applications that contained minor errors, and it created a rebuttable presumption that persons with a sixth-grade education were...
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    now a part of Campion Hall and home to the college's Lynch School of Education. The foundation was led by his youngest brother, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy...
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  • Board of Education Case Brief for Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka at Lawnix.com Case information and transcripts on The Curiae Project Brown v....
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    African-American voters as possible in Mississippi. Blacks had been restricted from voting since the turn of the century due to barriers to voter registration...
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    of COFO. In the Spring of 1962, with funds from the Voter Education Project, SNCC/COFO began voter registration organizing in the Mississippi Delta area...
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    nonexistent."[citation needed] Allegations of voter fraud were made in Texas. Fannin County had only 4,895 registered voters; yet 6,138 votes were cast in that county...
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  • and existing legislation. The Kennedy Administration promoted a Voter Education Project which led to 688,800 between 1 April 1962 and 1 November 1964,...
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  • unite voter registration and other civil rights activities in the state and oversee the distribution of funds from the Voter Education Project. It was...
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    political opponents were having in using segregationist rhetoric to stir white voters. Congressman Brooks Hays, who tried to mediate between the federal government...
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  • Freedom Summer of 1964 registered 63,000 black voters in a simplified process administered by the project; they formed their own political party because...
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    religion, sex, and national origin. It prohibits unequal application of voter registration requirements, racial segregation in schools and public accommodations...
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    Amendment. Subsequent litigation related to potential discriminatory effects of voter registration requirements has generally been based on application of this...
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    electoral laws that effectively disenfranchised black voters and, in Alabama, many poor white voters as well. Under the white-established Jim Crow laws,...
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    Voter ID laws in the United States are laws that require a person to provide some form of official identification before they are permitted to register...
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  • beginning Voter Education Project. July – SCLC begins citizenship classes; Andrew J. Young hired to direct the program. Bob Moses begins voter registration...
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    privately owned buses and tried to integrate the public parks. Evers led voter registration drives and used boycotts to integrate Leake County schools...
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    Southern Democrats, ratified new constitutions and laws creating barriers to voter registration and more complex election rules. In practice, this and the...
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