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To Secure These Rights, Committee report on constitutional civil rights, segregation, discrimination, and remedies.

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Committee report on constitutional civil rights, segregation, discrimination, and remedies, 1947

To Secure These Rights summary pamphlet of Committee’s final report, including dissemination and reaction from civil rights organizations and mass media.

Records of the President’s Committee on Civil Rights: Summary pamphlet of Committee’s final report, including dissemination and reaction from civil rights organizations and mass media., 1948

Supreme Court Case No. 51: Smith v. Allwright: Petition for Writ of Certiorari and Brief in Support Thereof, to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit

Supreme Court records on Smith v. Allwright, 1943

Council Meetings: March 5, 1966–Agenda. 283pp.

Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library folder on White House Conference on Civil Rights planning papers on jobs, administration of justice, voting, health, families, housing, communities and education, 1966

SD/White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights,” 6/1-2/66

National Archive Records on Black American civil rights, White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights,” 1965-1966, 1965-1966

July-December 1943. 176pp.

Records of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters: Ladies Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, July-December 1943, including support for the war effort and the March on Washington Movement, 1943

OF 10-B: Justice Department, FBI Survey of Racial Conditions in the U.S., Section 2 (Folder 2).

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Federal Bureau of Investigation survey of U.S. racial conditions, 1939-1945

Document 34: July 6, 1943 Letter with attachment

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Memorandum on remaining sessions at the national convention of the March on Washington Movement in Chicago, 1943

Document 33: July 6, 1943 Letter

From the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library: Report on the national convention of the March on Washington Movement in Chicago, Illinois, 1943

Conference Speeches. 41pp.

From the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library: Speeches delivered at White House Conference on Civil Rights by Lyndon B. Johnson, A. Philip Randolph, Hubert H. Humphrey, Thurgood Marshall, and Roy Wilkins, 1966

Amendments to the Voting Rights Act of 1965

Congressional Hearings: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights on bills to either extend or amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965; NAACP called as a witness, 1969-1970

The Voting Rights Amendment Act, S. 1945: Updating the Voting Rights Act in Response to Shelby County v. Holder

Congressional Hearings: Hearing to consider S. 1945, the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014, to amend the Voting Rights Act (VRA) of 1965 to revise criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to Federal preclearance, based on their histories of voter discrimination, before implementing any changes to their voting laws or practices, and to require States and political subdivisions to provide public notice when making changes in any prerequisite or procedure affecting voting in Federal elections. NAACP called as witness., 2014

Hearing on Impediments to Voter Enfranchisement

Congressional Hearings: Hearing in Philadelphia, Pa., to examine impediments to voter participation, focusing on problems associated with voter registration and election procedures. NAACP called as witness., 2007