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

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

Civil Rights Act; Lyndon B. Johnson; Mike Mansfield; U.S. Politics

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.

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Pen used by President Lyndon Johnson to sign H.R. 7152, Series XXIX, Box 40, Mike Mansfield Papers (Mss 065)

Archives and Special Collections, Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library, The University of Montana

1964

plastic pen; paper

en

physical object; document

Mss 065, Series XXIX, Box 40

Mss 065, Series XXIX, Box 40

pen; document