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Bridging History: Selma and the Voting Rights Act Source Credits Bridging History: Selma and the Voting Rights Act Source Credits Audio File Oral History Interview with The Honorable John Lewis of Georgia, December 11, 2014 Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama, 1965. Image courtesy of the Glen Pearcy Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Future U.S. Representative John Lewis speaking at a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 1964. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. March in Harlem, New York, March 14, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama. Image courtesy of the George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Library of Congress. Edmund Pettus Bridge, 2014 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage, Selma, Alabama. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. 1 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Bloody Sunday, Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Video Footage President Lyndon B. Johnson Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on the Voting Rights Bill, March 15, 1965. LBJ Library Video by CBS. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Civil Rights Leaders Meet with President John F. Kennedy in the White House after the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Mrs. Nettie Hunt explaining the meaning of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision to her daughter, November 19, 1954. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Photograph by Cecil Stoughton, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Rosa Parks, 1956. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. 2 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Demonstrators protesting outside the White House on March 12, 1965, after events in Selma, Alabama. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Video Footage Oral History Interview with The Honorable Eleanor Holmes Norton of the District of Columbia, January 31, 2013. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Video Footage Oral History Interview with Benjamin Zelenko, Former Counsel, House Committee of the Judiciary, August 20, 2014. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Map of Alabama Congressional Districts and Counties. Congressional Directory, 89th Cong., 1st sess. (Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1965). Voter Registration Statistics on Dallas County, Alabama. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report Book One: Voting (Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1961). Voter Registration Statistics on Alabama. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1961 Commission on Civil Rights Report Book One: Voting (Government Printing Office: Washington, D.C., 1961). Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ralph Abernathy, and Rev. Andrew Young in Selma, Alabama, March 1, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. 3 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Selma School Children, February 3, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Selma School Children with Police Escort, February 3, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Congressional Delegation to Visit Alabama. Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. Special Order on Congressional Trip to Selma, Alabama, February 1965. Congressional Record, House, 89th Cong., 1st sess. (9 February 1965): 2427. Bills Introduced After Congressional Trip to Selma, Alabama, February 1965. Congressional Record, House, 89th Cong., 1st sess. (8 February 1965): 2166– 1267. Map of Dallas County, Alabama. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. 4 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Jimmie Lee Jackson. Image courtesy of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Intercitizens Committee flyer, Jimmie Lee Jackson. Intercitizens Committee, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama. James Bevel, Alabama, 1965. Image courtesy of the Glen Pearcy Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. James Bevel discusses aftermath of attack, Alabama, 1965. Image courtesy of the Glen Pearcy Collection, American Folklife Center, Library of Congress. Video Footage Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. Video courtesy of F.I.L.M. Archives, Inc. Audio Oral History Interview with The Honorable John Lewis of Georgia, December 11, 2014. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. 5 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov John Lewis attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Amelia Boynton attacked on Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama, March 7, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Mrs. E. Jackson Letter to the House Judiciary Committee. Records of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Image courtesy of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. Western Union Telegram to the House Judiciary Committee. Records of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Image courtesy of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. Remarks Delivered on Bloody Sunday, in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressional Record, House, 89th Cong., 1st sess. (8–9 March 1965): 4361, 4381, 4403, 4405, 4448. Video Footage President Lyndon B. Johnson Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on the Voting Rights Bill, March 15, 1965. LBJ Library Video by CBS. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. 6 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Video Footage Universal Newsreel Footage, “The Selma Story.” Video courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Video Footage U.S. Information Agency Footage, March from Selma to Montgomery. Video courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Audio Speeches on the Steps of the Alabama State Capitol at the Conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery march, Part 15: Martin Luther King, Jr. Records of the Alabama Department of Safety, Subversive Unit. Audio courtesy of the Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists, HCLA 2907. Special Collections Library, Pennsylvania State University. Video Footage U.S. Information Agency Footage, March from Selma to Montgomery. Video courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration. Video Footage President Lyndon B. Johnson Addresses a Joint Session of Congress on the Voting Rights Bill, March 15, 1965. LBJ Library Video by CBS. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. President Lyndon B. Johnson and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1966. Photograph by Yoichi Okamoto, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. 7 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov House Judiciary Committee Print of H.R. 6400. Records of the House Committee on the Judiciary. Image courtesy of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. Audio Oral History Interview with Benjamin Zelenko, Former Counsel, House Committee of the Judiciary, June 11, 2014. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Benjamin Zelenko and Emanuel Celler, 1965. Image courtesy of Benjamin Zelenko, Former Counsel, House Committee of the Judiciary, provided by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. P.L. 88–352, The Voting Rights Act of 1965. Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress; General Records of the United States Government. Image courtesy of the Center for Legislative Archives, National Archives and Records Administration. President Lyndon Johnson Delivering Remarks on the Voting Rights Act in the Capitol Rotunda. Photograph by Frank Wolfe, courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Audio Oral History Interview with The Honorable Paul Findley of Illinois, January 12, 2015. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. 8 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov The Honorable Paul Findley of Illinois. Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives. March from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Conclusion of the Selma-to-Montgomery March at the Alabama State Capitol, March 25, 1965. Image courtesy of the Library of Congress. Video Footage Oral History Interview with The Honorable John Dingell, Jr., of Michigan, November 14, 2012. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Video Footage President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the 1965 Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965. LBJ Library Video by CBS. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Audio Oral History Interview with Jeffrey Oshins, House Page, September 10, 2013. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. 9 Office of the Historian U.S. House of Representatives history.house.gov Jeffrey Oshins, 1965. Image courtesy of Jeffrey Oshins, House Page, provided by the Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Video Footage President Lyndon B. Johnson Signs the 1965 Voting Rights Act, August 6, 1965. LBJ Library Video by CBS. Video courtesy of the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library. Video Footage March in Selma, Alabama, 2014 Congressional Civil Rights Pilgrimage. Office of the Historian, U.S. House of Representatives. Brown Chapel AME Church, Selma,
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