Description:
The March chairmen spent an hour with the Chief Executive following the
demonstration which drew over 200,000 people to the capital. Shown here, from
left, are: Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Floyd B. McKissick, national
chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality; Matthew Ahmann, executive
director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Whitney
M. Young Jr., executive director of the National Urban League; Dr. Martin
Luther King Jr., founder and president of the Southern Christian Leadership
Conference; John Lewis (in rear), chairman of the Student Nonviolent
Coordinating Committee; Rabbi Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish
Congress; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (in rear), chief executive officer of the
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. and acting chairman of the National
Council of Churches' Commission on Religion and Race; A. Philip Randolph,
founder and president of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, director of
the March; President Kennedy, and Walter P. Reuther, president of the United
Automobile Workers Union.
Subject names:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Young, Whitney M., Lewis, John, 1940 February 21-, Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), Religious News Service--Archives.
