KING MARTIN LUTHER JR Group photograph by Abbie Rowe of civi

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KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR. Group photograph by Abbie Rowe of civil rights leaders Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, Whitney Young et al, with Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy. Silver print photograph, 11 x 14 inches, matted and framed. Washington, D.C., 22 June 1963

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A classic photograph recording a gathering of African American leaders with members of the Kennedy administration. The meeting was held in the wake of the murder of Medgar Evers. It was at this "summit" that A Philip Randolph told President Kennedy that they were planning a March on Washington for "Jobs and Freedom." Kennedy was not at all receptive at first, but was eventually persuaded that a peaceful march would be infinitely preferable to people getting out in the streets.