Voter Education Project (Southern Regional Council)
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found: Its V.E.P. news, Jan.-Feb. 1970, surrogate:t.p. (Voter Education Project, Southern Regional Council, Inc.)
found: LC database, Oct. 13, 2017(hdg.: Southern Regional Council. Voter Education Project (1966- ))
found: Wikipedia, July 17, 2020:Voter Education Project (Voter Education Project (VEP) raised and distributed foundation funds to civil rights organizations for voter education and registration work in the southern United States from 1962 to 1992; the NAACP, CORE, SCLC, and SNCC formed the Voter Education Project (VEP) under the auspices of the non-profit Southern Regional Council (SRC)) John Lewis (civil rights leader) (In 1970, Lewis became the director of the Voter Education Project (VEP), a position he held until 1977. Though initially a project of the Southern Regional Council, the VEP became an independent organization in 1971)
found: New Georgia encyclopedia, via WWW, July 17, 2020:Voter Education Project (Voter Education Project (VEP) was an Atlanta-based voting rights and voter education organization that remained active for thirty years; formed in 1962 as a program of the Southern Regional Council (SRC); became an official program of the SRC on April 1, 1962; became an independent organization on June 1, 1971; due to a lack of funding, the VEP closed its doors in January 1992) - https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/voter-education-project
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1985-09-17: new
2020-07-19: revised
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