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Subject Voting--United States State District of Columbia

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1. Signing the Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965

Date of Original:: 1965-08-16
Collection:: African American Odyssey
Contributing Institution:: Library of Congress

2. 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

3. WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. affirming the principles of the civil rights movement as well as of nonviolence to the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., 1962 July 19

Creator:: WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Date of Original:: 1962-07-19
Collection:: WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
Contributing Institution:: Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

4. Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History

Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Collection:: Amistad Digital Resource for Teaching African American History
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

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Digital resource for teaching African American history

Date of Original:: 1954/1975
Contributing Institution:: Columbia Center for Digital Research and Scholarship

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History now; American history online : The Civil Rights movement

Date of Original:: 1900/1990
Contributing Institution:: Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History