“Darkness cannot drive out darkness. Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate. Only love can do that.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
Following the March on Washington on August 28, 1963, civil rights leaders met with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson to discuss civil rights legislation and posed for this picture. In the front row are Floyd McKissick (CORE), Whitney Young (National Urban League), Martin Luther King, Jr. (SCLC), Joachim Prinz (American Jewish Congress), A. Philip Randolph, President John F. Kennedy, Walter Reuther, and Roy Wilkins (NAACP). Other notable people in this photograph are John Lewis (Student Nonviolent Coordinating or “SNCC”), Mathew Ahmann (National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice), Reverend Eugene Carson Blake, W. Willard Wirtz (Secretary of Labor), and Vice President Lindon B. Johnson.
President John F. Kennedy addresses the nation on civil rights on June 11, 1963.
