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Project Details

The Voter Education Project (VEP) was a discreet civil rights agency that funded hundreds of African American voter registration campaigns throughout Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. This digital history map represents data that the VEP collected on grassroots registration campaigns between 1962 and 1970, depicting the wide impact of the VEP's activism. The VEP helped build Black political power across the American South during the civil rights movement.

Subjects or Themes

African American, Civil Rights Movement

Project Language(s)

English

Time Period

Geographic Location

Project Categories

Content Type

Mapping, Text

Target Audience(s)

Creators

Evan Faulkenbury (Associate Professor of History, SUNY Cortland)

RJ Ramey (auut studio)

Year(s)

2018

Host Institution / Affiliation / Project Location

Evan Faulkenbury (SUNY Cortland)

Software Employed

  • Mapbox, custom software by auut studio

Labor and Support

This digital history map is based on Evan Faulkenbury's research for his book project, "Poll Power: The Voter Education Project and the Movement for the Ballot in the American South (UNC Press, 2019)." Faulkenbury partnered with RJ Ramey of auut studio to build a digital representation of all of the VEP's projects during the 1960s. Instead of maps printed in the book, this digital map better represents the scale of the VEP's work. A note and weblink for this digital map also appears in the book Poll Power. The labor time took about 4 months.

Project Cost

Partnerships, funding sources, or grant-funding acknowledgement

History Department-Research Enrichment and Development Initiative (HD-REDI) Grant, SUNY Cortland