Effect
Though the VEP helped make great inroads in the registration of voters, especially in rural areas, the results of their actions did not support the Kennedys' belief that shifting the civil rights focus from protest to voter registration would reduce embarrassing news stories. In the Deep South, white resistance to Black voting rights turned out to be even more violent than their opposition to integrating lunch counters and bus depots. Instead of diminishing, news stories of police repression, brutality, bombings, and murders increased as white political leaders, the Ku Klux Klan, and White Citizen Councils, used arrests, terrorism, and economic retaliation to prevent Blacks from voting.
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