(PHOTOGRAPHY) Maurice Sorrell Photograph of Kennedy by the f

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(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Maurice Sorrell. Photograph of Kennedy by the first Black member of the White House News Photographers Association. Photograph, 7 x 9 inches, with photographer's inked stamp on verso; minor wear, inked inscription and small paper tag on verso. Washington, DC, circa 1961-1963

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This photograph shows President John F. Kennedy meeting on the White House south lawn with an unidentified delegation of Black leaders. One of them is apparently presenting him with a gift. The photographer Maurice Sorrell (1914-1998) became the first Black member of the previously segregated White House News Photographers Association in 1961, after Kennedy expressed his support at a press conference. Sorrell worked for the Washington Afro-American through mid-1962, and then his work appeared in Jet and Ebony through his retirement in 1993.