TY  - GEN
ED  - Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Columbia.
TI  - Citizens' Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Columbia records,
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - House
KW  - Committee on Rules
KW  - Committee on the Judiciary
KW  - Constitution
KW  - 23rd Amendment
KW  - Constitutional amendments
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Election
KW  - Suffrage
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence and other records of the organization documenting its activities in lobbying for the passage of the 23rd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which, in 1961, granted the citizens of the District of Columbia the right to vote in presidential elections.  Includes correspondence with members of Congress, chiefly members of the House Committee on Rules and the House Committee on the Judiciary; records of congressional hearings; publicity materials; lists of local groups backing the 23rd Amendment; and a file by state showing contacts made by the committee with leaders of the various state legislatures
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011087.3
ER  -