- Collection:
- Voices of Civil Rights
- Title:
- President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King one of the pens used in the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in the background are Rep. Claude Pepper (center) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy
- Date of Original:
- 1965
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.)
Pens--Washington (D.C.)
Voting--United States
United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965
African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (D.C.)
African Americans--Suffrage
Statutes--United States
Signing ceremonies--Washington (D.C.) - People:
- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Abernathy, Ralph, 1926-1990
Pepper, Claude, 1900-1989 - Location:
- United States, District of Columbia, Washington, 38.89511, -77.03637
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- StillImage
- Description:
- President Lyndon B. Johnson gives Dr. Martin Luther King one of the pens used in the signing of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, in the background are Rep. Claude Pepper (center) and Rev. Ralph Abernathy.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Local Identifier:
- LC-DIG-ppmsca-08105 (digital file from original photograph)
LC-USZ62-120214 (b&w film copy neg.) - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08105
- Extent:
- 1 photographic print
- Original Collection:
- Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.
- Contributing Institution:
- Library of Congress
- Rights:
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