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White House Photographs
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President John F. Kennedy distributes pens after signing the Equal Pay Act in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Standing (L-R): Representative Florence Price Dwyer (New Jersey); Senator Jennings Randolph (West Virginia); President of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW), Dorothy Height (receiving a pen from the President); former Director of the Women’s Bureau in the Department of Labor, Mary Anderson; Secretary-Treasurer of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), William F. Schnitzler; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor Standards, Esther Peterson; Director of Research and Program Resources for the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA), Ethlyn Christensen; Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson (in back); Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); President of the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), Pearl Larner Willen; Representative Edna Kelly of New York (in back, head turned); President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NFBPWC), Dr. Minnie Miles; Executive Director of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), Margaret Mealey; Director of United Automobile Workers (UAW) Women’s Department, Caroline Davis; unidentified.