List of Amendments Offered on House Floor to Voting Rights Acts of 1965
U.S. House of Representatives. Office of the Clerk of the House. (04/01/1789 - )
Series: General Records, compiled 1791 - 1988
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
07/09/1965
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ARC Identifier 5637792
Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution
Fifteenth Ammendment
This item consists of the resolution proposing the Fifteenth Amendment, which was ratified February 3, 1870, and grants citizens the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
National Archives and Records Administration. Office of the Federal Register. (04/01/1985 - ) (Most Recent)
Department of State. (09/1789 - ) (Predecessor)
Series: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, compiled 1789 - 2008
Archives I Reference Section, Textual Archives Services Division (NWCT1R), National Archives Building, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5385; FAX: 202-357-5936; EMAIL: Archives1reference@nara.gov.
02/26/1869
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ARC Identifier 299797
Adoption of the Resolution Calling for Independence from England, 07/02/1776
This document records the July 2, 1776, vote in which the Continental Congress agreed to independence. The words of the resolution, originally proposed by Virginia delegate Richard Henry Lee, are echoed in the Declaration of Independence.
Papers of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789.
Archives I Reference Section, Textual Archives Services Division (NWCT1R), National Archives Building, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5385; FAX: 202-357-5936; EMAIL: Archives1reference@nara.gov.
07/02/1776
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ARC Identifier 301685 / MLR Number UD 1
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Franklin D. Roosevelt's Radio Address on the Right to Vote
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Series: Sound Recordings of Campaign Speeches Given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, compiled 1944 - 1944
Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-M), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3540; FAX: 301-837-3620; EMAIL: mopix@nara.gov.
10/05/1944
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ARC Identifier 2325909
The Stage of the Campaign When the Working Man Feels His Importance
This cartoon shows politicians, including New York gubernatorial candidate Theodore Roosevelt, cozying up to the "working man," as the 1898 congressional and state elections entered the final week. Berryman points out the attention lavished on the labor vote, a potentially powerful voting bloc in the era of industrialization.
U.S. Senate. Office of Senate Curator. (? - )
Series: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection, compiled 1896 - 1949
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
11/02/1898
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Photographs and other Graphic Materials
ARC Identifier 1693536
Telegram to Martin Luther King, Jr., Requesting Testimony before House Judiciary Committee on Voting Rights Act of 1965
U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. (06/03/1813 - )
Series: Committee Papers, compiled 1813 - 2009
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
03/18/1965
Textual Records
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Roll Call Vote Tally on Senate Resolution 1564, the Voting Rights Act of 1965
U.S. Senate. (03/04/1789 - )
Series: Various Papers, compiled 1789 - 1982
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
05/26/1965
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ARC Identifier 5637787
Joint Resolution Proposing the Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution
26th Amendment
This item consists of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment, which was ratified July 1, 1971, and extends the right to vote to citizens eighteen years of age and older.
Records pertaining to the ratification of the Twenty-Sixth Amendment are available on National Archives Microfilm Publication M1518, "Ratified Amendments XI-XXVII to the United States Constitution," Roll 15.
03/23/1971
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House Resolution 6400, the Voting Rights Bill
U.S. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary. (06/03/1813 - )
Series: Bill Files, compiled 1903 - 1968
Center for Legislative Archives (NWL), National Archives Building, Room 8E, 7th and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC, 20408. PHONE: 202-357-5350; FAX: 202-357-5911; EMAIL: legislative.archives@nara.gov.
05/14/1965
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ARC Identifier 1991043