White House handout photo of US President Barack Obama signing the Civil Rights History Project Act into law in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, USA, on 12 May 2009. With President Obama are from left: Democratic Congressman Mike Quigley from Illinois; Democratic Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy from New York; Democratic Congressman Sanford Bishop from Georgia; Democratic Congressman Lacy Clay from Missouri; Democratic Congressman Jim Clyburn from South Carolina and Democratic Congressman John Lewis from Georgia.