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Civil rights--United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Carl Albert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-001
Scope and Contents The Albert Collection is the largest held by the Carl Albert Center, and it contains over 1000 linear feet of documents, multiple maps and oversize materials including scrapbooks, and over 10,000 photographs. Because Albert served for an extended period of time during an extremely productive time in Congress, the collection includes materials related to a variety of national legislative actions and political occurrences including Great Society legislation like the Civil Rights Act, the creation...

Page H. Belcher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-004
Scope and Contents The Belcher Collection consists of 182 linear feet of material plus maps and nearly 250 photographs. Materials cover a wide-range of topics with prominence being give to agriculture, wheat, meat inspection, federal aid to education, tax legislative, social security amendments, civil rights, school prayer, oil legislation, the Vietnam War, the Republican Party, soil conservation, the Farmers Home Administration, and rural electrification. A variety of document types related to legislation exist...

Jeffery Cohelan Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-012
Scope and Contents The Cohelan Collection contains 120 linear feet of materials, with the vast majority of items related to his time in office from 1959-1970. The documents include correspondence, press releases, questionnaires, speeches, notes, memos, background research, publications, and legislation. Known for his support of President Johnson and various progressive reforms, Cohelan’s collection is particularly strong in regard to civil rights, conservation of natural resources, the Vietnam War, and labor....

John Stephen "Steve" Horn Collection

 Collection — Case 1
Identifier: CAC-PP-066
Scope and Contents This collection contains a 201-page photocopy of Stephen Horn's notes that were taken during meetings of a bipartisan Senate group working for passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Horn was a legislative assistant to Senator Thomas Kuchel, a member of this group. Others involved were Senators Hubert Humphrey and Jacob Javits as well as congressional staff, representatives from the Justice Department, and the Leadership Council on Civil Rights.

John C. "Jack" Nichols Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-042
Scope and Contents The Nichols Collection contains 0.75 cubic feet and consists primarily of correspondence, memos, telegrams, and campaign materials. There are also invitations, Congressional Record reprints, a diary (1945), speeches, scrapbooks, voting records (1939-1940), congressional reports, and clippings. Although the collection covers the period from 1934-1949, most of the material documents Nichols's congressional career.  Topics covered include campaigns; aviation and air accidents, including the 1943...

Michael Lynn "Mike" Synar Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CAC-CC-051
Scope and Contents The greater part of the Synar collection, some 97,000 items, consists of legislative and research materials used by the Synar office during his years as a Congressman from Oklahoma. These materials range in date from 1979 to 1994 and include, but are not limited to, internal memos, drafts of bills, hearing materials, and background research. The materials cover a variety of topics relevant to Congress and Oklahoma but provide particular focus on issues that galvanized the Synar office...