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CBC Members at a Hearing on Fair Employment

Origins of the Congressional Black Caucus

Rep. John Conyers Jr. testifying at hearing. Left to Right: Rep. John Conyers Jr., Rep. Charles Diggs Jr., Rep. Shirley Chisholm, Del. Walter Fauntroy

Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) and Rep. Shirley Chisholm (D-NY)

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Bill

Eight African Americans serving in Congress said that Judge Clement F. Haynsworth's record on civil rights demonstrated his "infidelity to the principles of racial equality which are contained in the Constitution." Rep. John Conyers Jr., Democrat - Michigan (L) and...

CBC Members Confer with Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA)

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Bill

(L-R): Rep. Ron Dellums, Rep. John Conyers Jr. and Sen. Ted Kennedy

Counting Petitions in favor of Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday

Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Bill

(L-R): Rep. John Conyers Jr. and Harold Bennett, National Coordinator of the National Citizens Committee for Dr. Martin Luther King Holiday, review millions of supportive petitions receieved from the public before presenting them to the US Congress.