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President outlines drive against poverty to Negro leaders.
Title
President outlines drive against poverty to Negro leaders.
Description
Text transcribed from caption: P-30512 PRESIDENT OUTLINES DRIVE AGAINST POVERTY TO NEGRO LEADERS WASHINGTON, D.C. -- President Johnson is shown at the White House as he explained his legislative campaign against poverty to Dr. Martin Luther King and other Negro leaders. With the President at its meeting which also included discussion of the administration's civil rights program were, left to right, Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP; James Farmer, national director of CORE; Dr. King, Baptist minister and head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Whitney Young of the Urban League. The President noted that poverty afflicts American Negroes far more than the nation's whites. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (U-NY-1D-64-W)
Creator Name(s)
Edwards, Mary S. (author)
Date Created
1964, January 18, 1964, January 18, 1964
Name Subject(s)
Religious News Service--Archives., Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., Young, Whitney M., National Urban League., Farmer, James L., Jr. (James Leonard), 1920-1999., Congress of Racial Equality., King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968., Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
Topical Subject(s)
Presidents--United States., African American civil rights workers--United States., Civil rights movements--United States., Economic assistance, Domestic--United States.
Geographic subjects
United States., United States., United States., United States., Washington (D.C.), North and Central America--United States--District of Columbia--Washington
Physical Location
RNS RG 1, image no. P-30512; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
Related Item
Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
Identifier (local)
RNS-RG1_P-30512
(PID) Persistent Identifier
islandora:353780