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President Lyndon Johnson Signing the Voting Rights Act

  • 8/6/1965

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Description

This photograph shows President Johnson signing the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr. and other civil rights leaders look on, in the President’s Room of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC.

Citation

This primary source comes from the Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection.

National Archives Identifier: 2803443

Full Citation: Photograph A1030-8A; Photograph of President Lyndon Johnson Signs the Voting Rights Act as Martin Luther King, Jr., with Other Civil Rights Leaders in the Capitol Rotunda, Washington, DC; 8/6/1965; Johnson White House Photographs, 11/22/1963 – 1/20/1969; Collection LBJ-WHPO: White House Photo Office Collection,; Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, Austin, TX. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/document/lbj-signs-voting-rights-act/, December 18, 2025]

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