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Voices of civil rights

Date of Original:: 2005
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. Poor People's March at Lafayette Park and on Connecticut Avenue

Creator:: Leffler, Warren K.
Date of Original:: 1968-06-18
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

3. Signing of the Civil Rights Act, April 11, 1968

Creator:: Leffler, Warren K.
Date of Original:: 1968-04-11
Collection:: African American Odyssey
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

4. Washington D.C. riot. April 1968. Aftermath

Creator:: Leffler, Warren K.
Date of Original:: 1968-04-08
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

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

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

6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. Participants, some carrying American flags, marching in the civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama in 1965

Creator:: Pettus, Peter
Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

11. 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

12. Congress of Racial Equality conducts march in memory of Negro youngsters killed in Birmingham bombings, All Souls Church, 16th Street, Washington, D.C.

Creator:: O'Halloran, Thomas J.
Date of Original:: 1963-09-22
Collection:: Voices of Civil Rights
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress