Civil rights leaders meet with President John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office of the White House after the March on Washington, D.C.
Photograph shows (left to right): Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE); Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice); Whitney Young (National Urban Leage); Martin Luther King, Jr (SCLC); John Lewis (SNCC); Rabbi Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress); A. Philip Randolph, with Reverend Eugene Carson Blake partially visible behind him; President John F. Kennedy; Walter Reuther (labor leader), with Vice President Lyndon Johnson partially visible behind him; and Roy Wilkins (NAACP). *Not visible:.
- Date
- 1963-08-28
- Photographer / author
- Leffler, Warren K., photographer
- Collection
- U.S. News & World Report
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 4,644 × 3,104 pixels
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