Description:
Text transcribed from caption: PC-29806 LEADERS OF MARCH VISIT WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Representatives of religious, civic, labor and civil
rights groups chat on the White House lawn before a meeting with President
Kennedy which followed the historic March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
From left are: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored People; Floyd B. McKissick, national chairman
of the Congress of Racial Equality, who marched in place of CORE president,
James Farmer, who remained in Louisiana where he had been jailed in a rights
protest; Mathew Ahmann, executive director of the National Catholic
Conference for Interracial Justice; Dr. Eugene Carson Blake, 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; Rabbi
Joachim Prinz, president of the American Jewish Congress; A. Philip Randolph,
director of the March on Washington and founder and president of the
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters; and John Lewis, chairman of the Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE
PHOTO (SM-DC-8E-63-NBM)
Creator:
Muse, Seth H., 1912-1976. (photographer)
Subject names:
Religious News Service--Archives., March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963 : Washington, D.C.), White House (Washington, D.C.), Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., National Association for the Advancement of Colored People., McKissick, Floyd B. (Floyd Bixler), 1922-1991., Congress of Racial Equality., Ahmann, Mathew H., National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice., Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Commission on Religion and Race., Prinz, Joachim, 1902-1988., American Jewish Congress., Randolph, A. Philip (Asa Philip), 1889-1979., Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters., Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), Lewis, John, 1940-2020.
Topics:
Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights demonstrations--Washington (D.C.), Civil right workers--Washington (D.C.), Labor leaders--Washington (D.C.), Civil rights--Religious aspects.
Geographic subjects:
Washington (D.C.), Mall, The (Washington, D.C.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:358123