The President's Meeting with Leaders of the March on Washington

This photograph shows President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson meeting with members of the civil rights movement and leaders of the March on Washington in the Oval Office. Left to right: Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; Martin Luther King, Jr.; Eugene Carson Blake of the National Council of Churches; President Kennedy; Vice President Johnson; and Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers. Others (not in order): A. Philip Randolph of the AFL-CIO; John Lewis, Chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and future congressman for Georgia's 5th District; Whitney M. Young of the National Urban League; Mathew H. Ahmann of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; Rabbi Joachim Prinz of the American Jewish Congress; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; and Floyd B. McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality.