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Contributing Institution Library of Congress Subject African Americans--Suffrage

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1. 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

2. Voters at the voting booths

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