Activities
Between mid-1962 and the end of 1964, under the direction of Wiley Branton, the VEP distributed close to $900,000 (equal to $5,700,000 in 2006 dollars) to civil rights groups doing voter registration in the South. During this period, almost 700,000 new Black voters were added to the rolls, most of them in the mid- and upper-south states. But in the face of fierce resistance from white politicians and officials, few Blacks were registered in the Deep South states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina. It is only after passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that VEP-funded registration drives succeeded in registering large numbers of Black voters in those Deep South states.
The VEP continued funding voter registration, education, and research efforts in the South until 1968 under subsequent directors Randolph Blackwell, Vernon Jordan, John Lewis and Ed Brown.
Read more about this topic: Voter Education Project
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