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Summer 2012

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June 29, 1982 VOTING RIGHTS ACT AMENDMENTS The 1982 reauthorizaon of the Vong Rights Actmade secon two of the act permanent. This secon of the bill prohibited the violaon of vong rights by any pracces that discriminated based on race, regardless of whether or not it was the intent of the pracces to discriminate. "The Library of Congress in the Capitol, 1800–1897" in the Great Experiment Hall of the Cox Corridors September 21, 1982 CONGRESS HONORS ARTIST ALLYN COX Muralist Allyn Cox was working on the Great Experiment Hall in the Cox Corridors on the first floor of the House wing of the Capitol when ill health required his rerement fromthe project. Cox died soon aer a ceremony honoring him, havingmostly completed the second of the three corridors he hadmade plans for decorang. Subjects in this hall, funded by the Naonal Society of the Daughters of the American Revoluon, focus on legislave milestones between 1629 (Mayflower Compact) and 1920 (woman suffrage). 18 THE CAPITOL DOME SUMMER 2012 ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL

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