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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Voter turnout in US elections is the total number of votes cast by the voting age population (VAP), or more recently, the voting eligible population (VEP)...
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John Lewis (section Early life and education)
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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born during the middle of the Civil Rights Movement. Brown v. Board of Education was decided three months and twenty-two days before Bridges's birth. The...
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Jack Schlossberg (section Early life and education)
2016, in an opinion piece for The Washington Post, he encouraged young voters to support Hillary Clinton for president. He has also accompanied his mother...
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Rose Schlossberg (section Early life and education)
non-profit When We All Vote, for a video series campaigning for increased voter turnout for the 2020 United States presidential election. Schlossberg has...
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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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the turn of the century by Georgia's passage of a new constitution making voter registration more difficult, as did all the other former Confederate states...
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Voting Rights Act of 1965 (redirect from Voter rights act)
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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Operation Mongoose (redirect from The Cuban Project)
The Cuban Project, also known as Operation Mongoose, was an extensive campaign of terrorist attacks against civilians, and covert operations, carried...
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Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2024-06-09. "Executive Order 11085—The Presidential Medal of Freedom | The American Presidency Project"...
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reach the entire population. Examples of projects often assisted[citation needed] by Education offices are projects for curriculum development, teacher training...
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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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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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Michael Schwerner (section Early life and education)
community. Parishioners had been beaten in the wake of Schwerner and Chaney's voter registration rallies for CORE. The Sheriff's Deputy, Cecil Price, had been...
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James Chaney (section Early life and education)
joined the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) in Meridian. He organized voter education classes, introduced CORE workers to local church leaders, and helped...
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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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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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Caroline Kennedy (category New York City Department of Education)
of Kennedy's professional life has been in literature, law, politics, education reform, and charity. She is a member of the Kennedy family and the only...
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Vernon Jordan (section Early life and education)
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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proposal was rejected by the state Senate the following year. In 1990, Arizona voters were given the opportunity to vote on giving state employees a paid MLK...
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New Frontier (section Education)
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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American public schools after the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education landmark decision in 1954 struck down the constitutionality of racial...
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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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into law the National Cultural Center Act which provided momentum for the project. This was the first time that the federal government helped finance a structure...
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abilities. She helped initiate voter registration campaigns and identify other local grievances. Their strategy included education, sermons in churches, and...
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European Venus Explorer Voluntary Euthanasia Party, in Australia Voter Education Project, a 1960s U.S. organisation for distributing funds to the civil...
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blacks and many poor whites through rejecting them for voter registration and voting: making voter registration more difficult by providing more detailed...
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Medgar Evers (section Early life and education)
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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practices, and a ban on poll taxes and lynching." Requiring poll taxes for voter registration and voting was a device used by southern states in new constitutions...
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