Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
President Lyndon B. Johnson with Civil Rights Leaders in the Oval Office
- Photographer
- Yoichi Okamoto
- Date of Work
- January 18, 1964
- Credit
- Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum/NARA
President Lyndon B. Johnson with Civil Rights Leaders in the Oval Office
In this photograph, taken in the Oval Office on January 18, 1964 by Yoichi Okamoto, President Lyndon B. Johnson meets with a group of civil rights leaders. Among the group are the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (left), Whitney M.
Young, Jr. of the National Urban League (right), and James Farmer of the Congress of Racial Equality (far right).
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