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Results: 1-25 of 52,911   |   Refined by: Available Online   Remove Subject: District of Columbia   Remove

  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    In 2018, U.S. congressman, statesman, and civil-rights leader John Lewis, sits for a photo shoot at the United States Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2018
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    In 2018, U.S. congressman, statesman, and civil-rights leader John Lewis, sits for a photo shoot at the United States Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2018
  • Legislation
    H.R.10044 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to ... Summary of H.R.10044 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, Ralph - 94th Congress - House of Representatives
    • Date: 1975-10-06
  • Legislation
    H.R.1333 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to ... Summary of H.R.1333 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, Ralph - 94th Congress - House of Representatives
    • Date: 1975-01-14
  • Legislation
    H.R.12887 - 93rd Congress (1973-1974): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to ... Summary of H.R.12887 - 93rd Congress (1973-1974): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, Ralph - 93rd Congress - House of Representatives
    • Date: 1974-02-19
  • Legislation
    H.R.11827 - 93rd Congress (1973-1974): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to ... Summary of H.R.11827 - 93rd Congress (1973-1974): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, Ralph - 93rd Congress - House of Representatives
    • Date: 1973-12-06
  • Legislation
    H.R.8964 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to ... Summary of H.R.8964 - 94th Congress (1975-1976): A bill to amend section 1979 of the Revised Statutes (42 U.S.C. 1983) to permit suits against bodies politic and the District of Columbia with respect to certain violations of civil rights.
    • Contributor: Metcalfe, Ralph - 94th Congress - House of Representatives
    • Date: 1975-07-28
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Today you have a new generation of black people who have come on the scene ... 1 print ; (poster format) | Poster showing four scenes from the civil rights movement, a portrait of Malcolm X, and a quotation from Malcolm X.
    • Contributor: Finer, Eli
    • Date: 1969
  • Collection
    Harold H. Greene papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, writings, reports, case material, opinions, orders, printed matter, and other papers relating to Greene's career in the U.S. Department of Justice Civil Rights Division and on the bench of the District of Columbia Superior Court and the U.S. District Court (District of Columbia). Documents his participation in drafting the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Subjects include...
    • Contributor: Greene, Harold H.
  • Manuscript/Mixed Material
    John Payton papers, 1913-2012 Civil rights attorney and president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Speeches, legal material, documents from the 1994 election in South Africa, correspondence, biographical material, writings, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Payton’s career beginning in 1992.
    • Contributor: Payton, John
    • Date: 1913
  • Collection
    John Payton papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, interviews, speeches, writings, congressional testimony, legal records, biographical material, photographs, and other papers relating primarily to Payton's career as corporation counsel for the District of Columbia and president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. Subjects include affirmative action, civil rights, education, and law. Documents his activities with South Africa's Independent Electoral Commission and the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights...
    • Contributor: Payton, John
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Dorothy I. Height/Benning Neighborhood Library, Washington, D.C. 1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
    • Contributor: Highsmith, Carol M.
    • Date: 2011
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    The fight for freedom... is at home! Strike! Title from item. Gift; Gary Yanker; 1975-1983.
    • Contributor: Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in S.E. Asia
    • Date: 1965
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    23rd Annual Conference of the N.A.A.C.P., Washington, D.C., May 17-22, 1932 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 9 x 31.5 in. | Sitters include NAACP staff: Daisy Lampkin, Walter White, Mary White Ovington, Charles Hamilton Houston, William Hastie, Roy Wilkins, and W.E.B. Du Bois.
    • Contributor: Scurlock, Addison, N.
    • Date: 1932
  • Collection
    Anne B. Turpeau papers, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, speeches, writings, studies, reports, project proposals, organizational minutes and agenda, conference and committee records, legal documents, appointment calendars and notebooks, biographical records, Brock and Turpeau families papers, press releases and statements, newspaper clippings, printed material, and other papers relating to Turpeau's public service and activism on behalf of civil rights, community development, and women's rights. Includes material pertaining primarily to her service...
    • Contributor: Turpeau, Anne (Anne Brock)
  • Collection
    John Garrett Penn papers Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Correspondence, memoranda, bench books, orders, opinions, briefs, motions, exhibits, trial transcripts, depositions, notes, appointment books, reports, speeches and writings, clippings, printed matter, and other papers relating chiefly to Penn's career as a superior court judge, District of Columbia Superior Court, and a federal district court judge, U.S. District Court (District of Columbia). Includes files pertaining to Griffin v. United States, the suit of Richard...
    • Contributor: Penn, John Garrett
  • Exhibit
    Bill of Rights Legacy - Creating the United States Examples of the Bill of Rights's influence on later events in American history.
    • Contributor: Key, Francis Scott - Madison, James - Jefferson, Thomas - Green, Peter - Roosevelt, Eleanor - Berryman, Clifford K. - Ellison, Ralph Waldo - Block, Herbert - Trudeau, Garry - Fortas, Abe - Warren, Earl
    • Date: 1790
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    [Civil Liberties Hearing] 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
    • Contributor: Harris & Ewing
    • Date: 1938
  • Photo, Print, Drawing
    Civil Liberties Hearing 1 negative : glass ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
    • Contributor: Harris & Ewing
    • Date: 1938
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