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Constitution Legacy
Widespread Interest in the Founding Documents
De Constitutie. Gedrukt by Order de Federal Committee in de Stad van Albany. Albany, New York: Charles Webster, 1788. Law Library, Library of Congress (117.00.01)
[Digital ID#us0117_01; us0117_02]
Widespread Interest in the Founding Documents
Constitution Fédérale Pour La Confédération Suisse, September 12, 1848. Printed pamphlet. Berne?: ca. 1848. General Collections, Library of Congress (117.02.00)
[Digital ID# us0117_02p2]
Opponents of ERA Protest in Front of White House
Warren K. Leffler. [Demonstrators opposed to the ERA in front of the White House], February 4, 1977. Photograph. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (116.03.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca-01952]
Scrapbook Shows Women Seeking Equal Rights
Elizabeth Smith Miller. Scrapbook, 1910–1911. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (119.00.07)
[Digital ID# pg. 82: http://memory.loc.gov/service/rbc/rbcmil/scrpbk7/0081.jpg
Pg. 83: http://memory.loc.gov/service/rbc/rbcmil/scrpbk7/0082.jpg]
Supreme Court Upholds Cherokee Dispossession
Smith Thompson. Dissenting Opinion in Cherokee Nation vs. The State of Georgia, [1831]. Manuscript. Smith Thompson Collection, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (118.01.00)
[Digital ID # us0118_01]
Attempt to Dissolve the Union
“Passed unanimouslyat 1:15 o’clock, p.m., December 20, 1860. An ordinance to dissolve the Union. . . .” Charleston Mercury Extra, December 20, 1860. Broadside. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress. Gift of Alfred Whital Stern, 1953 (120.01.00)
[Digital ID# us0120]
“Your Right to Vote is Your Opportunity to Protect.”
Think American Institute. “Your Right to Vote is Your Opportunity to Protect, Over Here the Freedoms for which American Fight Over There.” Rochester, New York: Kelly Read, ca.1943. Offset lithograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.02.00)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-19168]
NAACP Urges Everyone to Register and Vote
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. At the Ballot Box, Everyone is Equal: Register and Vote: Join the NAACP, [1970-1980]. Poster. Gary Yanker Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.03.00)
[Digital ID# http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g05532]
Protecting Constitutional Rights
Gib Crockett. “Be Sure to Read the Large Print,” published in the Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), June 2, 1963. Drawing. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (120.04.00)
[Digital ID # acd-2a07727]
United States Constitution as a Recruiting Tool
You Are the People. It is Time to Give the Nation Back to Its Citizens. Join Common Cause. [between 1968 and 1980]. Offset lithograph. Yanker Poster Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (115.00.00)
[Digital ID# LC-DIG-ppmsca-18338]
“We’re Fighting to Prevent This”
Think American Institute. “We’re Fighting to Prevent This.” Rochester, New York: Kelly Read, 1943. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (115.01)
[Digital ID# ppmsca-18339]
Debate over States’ Rights and National Sovereignty
Speech of Daniel Webster in Reply to Mr. Hayne of South Carolina: The Resolution of Mr. Foot of Connecticut, Relative to the Public Lands, Being under Consideration, Delivered in the Senate January 26, 1830. Washington: Printed by Gales and Seaton, 1830. Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (115.03.00)
[Digital ID # us0115_03]
Seeking Women’s Rights to Vote
Woman Suffrage Headquarters in Upper Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, 1912. Photograph. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (131.02.00)
[Digital ID# http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a52979]
“The evolving nature of the Constitution”
Thurgood Marshall. Speech Concerning the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution, April 2, 1987. Draft typescript. Thurgood Marshall Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (118.02.00)
[Digital ID # us0188_02]
American Japanese Forced to Evacuate Homes
Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Bainbridge Island, Washington, Evacuation. Gelatin silver print, March 30, 1942. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (116.04.00)
[Digital ID # ppmsca.24331]
Japanese Internment
Tessaku (Barbed Wire). No. 6. Tule Lake, California: Tessakusha, (1945). Asian Division, Library of Congress (117.04.00)
[Digital ID # us0117_05]
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