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Senator Mike Mansfield standing behind Senator Everett Dirksen who is typing a document.

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Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield and Minority Leader Everett Dirksen looking at a document together.

Senators Mike Mansfield and Everett Dirksen seated on a couch and reading from the same document.

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Majority Leader Mike Mansfield with Minority Leader Everett M. Dirksen sitting together and reading a document.

Clear plastic fountain pen used for the Civil Rights signing ceremony sitting atop a typed letter.

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Pen used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign H.R. 7152, Civil Rights Act of 1964, into law. Letter accompanying the pen gifting it to Mansfield.