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Title: Judiciary Committee roll call sheet for the Civil Rights bill, October 29, 1963
Identifier: camh-dob-001601
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Dates: 1963-10-29
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A voting sheet for the Judiciary Committee's consideration of the civil rights bill proposed by President John F. Kennedy, a month before his assassination. This version of the bill did not pass.

Title: List of constituents, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002216
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: List of constituents who received a copy of the letter seen in item camh-dob-002215 on voting rights.

Title: List of constituents, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002226
Topic: Letters
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: List of names and addresses of constituents who wrote to Jack Brooks about the Voting Rights Act and who received a reply from Brooks.

Title: Texas Secretary of State Mark White -- Testimony on Voting Rights Extension, April 22, 1975
Identifier: camh-dob-001165
Creator: White, Mark, 1940-2017
Topic: Legislation, Civil Rights
Dates: 1975-04-22
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy distributed to the Texas delegation of the remarks of the Texas Secretary of State, Mark White, before the United States Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights. The remarks are regarding the official Texas State opinion on the federal government sanctioning bilingual ballots, when Texas had already done so.

Title: Voting Rights Act of 1965, undated
Identifier: camh-dob-002269
Topic: African Americans--Civil Rights, Legislation
Resource: Jack B. Brooks papers
Description: A copy of the Voting Rights Act sent to Jack Brooks by Harold "Barefoot" Sanders. Certain passages of the bill are underlined in pencil, but it is not clear whether this was done by Brooks or a member of his staff.