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Rights In Copyright Collection Name Voices of Civil Rights

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1. Viva Chavez, viva la causa, viva la huelga

Creator:: Fernandez, Orlando
Date of Original:: 1968
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Stokely Carmichael in midst of crowd demonstrating near the Capitol

Date of Original:: 1967
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

3. This is a general view of the scene where Michigan civil rights worker, Mrs. Viola Liuzzo was slain late March 25, 1965 Lowndesboro, Alabama

Date of Original:: 1965-03-26
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

4. Aerial view of marchers crossing bridge during the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

5. Civil rights demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee chained to a federal courthouse in New York City in protest of civil rights abuses in Jackson, Mississippi

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

6. A pair of muddy shoes underscore the weariness following the 1965 march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama; state capitol in background

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

7. 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
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

8. Rev. R.L.T. Smith, near top at right, addresses crowd in New York at a memorial service for Medgar Evers

Date of Original:: 1963
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

9. We shall overcome March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, August 28, 1963

Creator:: Lo Monaco, Louis
Date of Original:: 1963
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

10. Trial by violence

Date of Original:: 1962-02
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

11. John Lewis and others pray during demonstration

Creator:: Lyon, Danny
Date of Original:: 1962/1964
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

12. Freedom group hang signs on bus

Date of Original:: 1961
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress