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File Description
| Alt ID: | vga022 |
| Title: | News release by Congressman Charles McC. Mathias; July 7, 1965 |
| Author: | Mathias, Charles McC. (Charles McCurdy), 1922- |
| Subject and Keywords: | Civil rights movements |
| Subject and Keywords: | Suffrage |
| Subject and Keywords: | United States. Voting Rights Act of 1965 |
| Subject and Keywords: | Voting |
| Description: | News release of a statement made on the floor of the House of Representatives by Congressman Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland, announcing his support for the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Also discusses some of the objectives of the act, including abolition of the poll tax. |
| Publisher: | University of Southern Mississippi Libraries. (electronic version) |
| Other Contributors: | Electronic version made available through a National Leadership Grant for Libraries from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 1965-07-07(original) |
| Date: | (YYYY-MM-DD) 2002-09-09 (digital reproduction) |
| Resource Type: | Text |
| Format: | (Extent) Digital reproduction of 1-page document. |
| Source: | Box 2, Folder 28 |
| Relation: | IsPartOf M345 Adams (Victoria Gray) Papers. |
| Relation: | IsPartOf the Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive. |
| Coverage: | (Time Period) 1950s-1960s |
| Rights: | Copyright protected. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required. |