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Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1963-08-28-C
AR39, ST28
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR8090-A
President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson meet with organizers of "The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom” in the Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. Left to right: Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz; National Chairman of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Floyd McKissick; Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice, Mathew Ahmann; President of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Young, Jr.; President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; representative for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), John Lewis; President of the American Jewish Congress, Rabbi Joachim Prinz; President of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA (NCC), Reverend Eugene Carson Blake; President of the Negro American Labor Council (NALC), A. Philip Randolph; President Kennedy; Vice President Johnson; President of United Auto Workers (UAW), Walter P. Reuther; Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Roy Wilkins.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7993-B
Civil rights leaders pose with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. (L-R) Front row: unidentified man (mostly out of frame); Publisher of the Philadelphia Tribune E. Washington Rhodes; Director of the Anti-Defamation League B'nai B'rith Benjamin Epstein; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Attorney General Kennedy; executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Roy Wilkins; Vice President Johnson; President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Walter P. Reuther; President of the National Urban League Whitney M. Young, Jr. (partially hidden); Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; President of the Negro American Labor Council (NALC) A. Philip Randolph (partially out of frame). (L-R) Second row: unidentified man; President of the National Association of Colored Women Dr. Rosa Gragg; unidentified man (mostly hidden behind RFK). (L-R) Back row: unidentified man; Director of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) James Farmer; unidentified man; unidentified man (partially hidden); President of the Southern Regional Council James McBride Dabbs; lawyer James Scheuer; President of the National Council of Negro Women Dorothy Height (mostly hidden behind LBJ); program director for the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council Arnold Aronson (partially hidden behind Height’s hat); founder of the Catholic Interracial Council George K. Hunton; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference John F. Cronin. The Rose Garden, White House. Washington, D.C.