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    Using a variety of voting rights focused primary sources can spark discussions about today’s voting rights legislation and voter registration issues.  Student teams can select a source, collaborate on research and report back on the specific voting issue that prompted the photograph or drawing.

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    The Signing of the Voting Rights Act 1965
    [President Bill Clinton signing the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter Act), as Vice-President Albert Gore and notable members of Congress look on]
    We the Future - Power to the Polls
    No vote. D.C. ballot boxes draped in black. Washington, D.C., Nov. 8. Election day was just another day for voteless District of Columbia. To impress upon Washingtonians what they are missing ballot boxes draped in black were places on the busiest corners of downtown. Members of the District League of Women's Voters attended the boxes but instead of receiving votes they handed out information on what it means to the citizens of Washington not to be able to vote. Left to right we see--Mrs.. Karl Bradford, Mrs. R. Shull, and Mrs. Henry Chalmers, 11/8/38
    At the ballot box, everybody is equal, register and vote Join the NAACP.
    [African American lawyer Vernon E. Jordan working on a voter education project, seated at a desk with a typewriter at the Southern Regional Council, Atlanta, Georgia] / WKL.
    Handicapped! / G.
    [African American demonstrators outside the White House, with signs "We demand the right to vote, everywhere" and signs protesting police brutality against civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama] / WKL.
    A group of young members of the National Woman's Party before the Capitol. They are about to invade the offices of the senators and congressmen from their states, to ask them to vote for Equal Rights. In the foreground is Miss Anita Pollitzer, secretary of the National Woman's Party, instr
    General Sheridan stands by his dispatches
    Voting, alley by Whittier Blvd. and Dittman Ave., Los Angeles, 1997
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