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1. Testimony of Representative Barbara Jordan Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, House Committee on the Judiciary, February 26, 1975, Extension of the Voting Rights Act

Creator:: Johnson, Lyndon B., (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Date of Original:: 1975-02-26
Collection:: Barbara C. Jordan Archives
Contributing Institution:: Texas Southern University. Library

2. The Civil Rights movement: Evaluating Lyndon B. Johnson's character and efforts during the civil rights era

Date of Original:: 1969-04
Collection:: For Educators
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

3. --This time we musta used the cattle prod in the wrong place! / Baldy, [1965 Mar. 14].

Creator:: Baldowski, Clifford H., 1917-1999
Date of Original:: 1965-03-14
Collection:: Baldy Editorial Cartoons, 1946-1982, 1997: Clifford H. Baldowski Editorial Cartoons at the Richard B. Russell Library.
Contributing Institution:: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies

4. Report to President John F. Kennedy regarding civil rights

Creator:: Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
Date of Original:: 1962
Collection:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: The Collection
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

5. Emancipation Meeting Flyer

Date of Original:: 1950/1968
Collection:: New Georgia Encyclopedia
Contributing Institution:: New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)

6. Voters at the voting booths

Date of Original:: 1945
Collection:: African American Odyssey
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress