This photograph by Abbie Rowe of the National Park Service shows President John F. Kennedy meeting with civil rights leaders in the Oval Office. Present in the photo are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; Floyd B. McKissick, Congress of Racial Equality; Mathew H. Ahmann, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young, National Urban League; Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and future congressman for Georgia's 5th District; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress; Eugene Carson Blake, National Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers; and Roy Wilkins, NAACP.
This photograph by Abbie Rowe of the National Park Service shows President John F. Kennedy meeting with civil rights leaders in the Oval Office. Present in the photo are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; Floyd B. McKissick, Congress of Racial Equality; Mathew H. Ahmann, National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney M. Young, National Urban League; Martin Luther King, Jr.; John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and future congressman for Georgia's 5th District; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, American Jewish Congress; Eugene Carson Blake, National Council of Churches; A. Philip Randolph, AFL-CIO; Walter Reuther, United Auto Workers; and Roy Wilkins, NAACP.