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Civil Rights Protests and the White House - Photo 1

Civil Rights Protests and the White House - Photo 1

On March 28, 1963, after participating in the March for Jobs and Freedom, Civil Rights leaders met with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office. This photograph shows (left to right): 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); Reverend Eugene Carson Blake (United Presbyterian Church); A. Philip Randolph; President John F. Kennedy; Walter Reuther (labor leader), with Vice President Lyndon Johnson partially visible behind him; and Roy Wilkins (NAACP). Not shown: Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor); Floyd McKissick (CORE).

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John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum