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Civil rights documentation project

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Title:Civil rights documentation project
Date:1963-1965
Description:

Web site documenting the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, as well as congressional debate leading up to the legislation. The site focuses on the years 1963 to 1965 and covers both the social climate as well as the legislative process. Digital materials including photographs, legislative documents, sound recordings, and text are presented in a timeline form. Many of the digital materials are held at other institutions to which the site links.

The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.

Types:Instructional materials | Timelines (chronologies) | Legislative records | Legislative acts | Reports | Black-and-white photographs | Sound recordings
Subjects:Legislators--United States | Civil rights--United States | African Americans--Civil rights | United States. Civil Rights Act of 1964 | United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965 | Voting--United States | African Americans--Suffrage | United States
Institution:Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center
Contributors:Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center
Online Publisher:[Pekin (Ill.)] : Everett McKinley Dirksen Congressional Leadership Research Center | 2006
Persistent Link to Item:http://www.congresslink.org/civilrights/