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Subject African American civil rights workers--Washington (D.C.) Rights In Copyright

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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. William Charles Branche

Date of Original:: 1965
Collection:: Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2
Contributing Institution:: Alabama. Department of Archives and History

3. Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom meeting with president John F. Kennedy at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1963 August 28

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1963-08-28
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

4. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of civil rights leaders visiting with president Dwight D. Eisenhower and A. Philip Randolph, vice president of the AFL-CIO speaks to reporters about the visit, Washington D.C., 1958 June 23

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1958-06-23
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

5. Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a seated Clarence Mitchell dressed in a suit and looking downward, Washington, D.C., 1950s

Creator:: Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission
Date of Original:: 1950/1959
Collection:: Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:: Mississippi. Department of Archives and History