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Print shows African American men, in dress indicative of their professions, in a queue waiting their turn to vote.

Sketch shows senators scattered across chamber in the U.S. Capitol before vote on Civil Rights Act.

Photograph shows a convoy of Russian tanks that have rumbled into Romania during the occupation of Bessarabia.

Speech by President John F. Kennedy to the Kennedy Foundation Mental Retardation Group and given to Mary Hammerbacher (Manner) as a counselor at Camp Shriver, 1962.
Camp Shriver began in Eunice Shriver’s backyard at her Timberlawn estate in 1962.…

Flyer for the 21st annual Manzanar Pilgrimage sponsored by the Manzanar Committee. Included is a map from Los Angeles to Manzanar.

The Jim Matsuoka Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Collection includes brochures, meeting notes and agendas,…

Flyer, program, directions, and pilgrimage information for the Sixteenth Annual Manzanar Pilgrimage. Also included is a brief history of the Manzanar incarceration camp.

The Jim Matsuoka Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress Collection includes…

Judith "Judy" Heumann first drew national attention with her fight to become a New York City teacher. She founded Disabled in Action and sued the New York Board of Education to become a teacher. Her case was the first disabled rights case brought to…

President Franklin D. Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt visited Ford Motor Company's Willow Run bomber plant on September 18, 1942. The Roosevelts, accompanied by Henry Ford, Edsel Ford, and Charles Sorensen -- the production manager behind…

Women represented approximately one third of the workers at Ford Motor Company's Willow Run plant during World War II. Women did everything from clerical work in the offices to riveting and welding on the assembly line. Labor shortages made women…