Digital image of President Kennedy with leaders of the March on Washington

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A black and white digital image of the leaders of the March on Washington with President John F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson in the Oval Office. The men are pictured standing in front of an open doorway. From left to right, pictured are: W.Willard Wirtz, Floyd McKissick, Matthew H. Ahmann, Whitney Moore Young Jr., Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lewis, Joachim Prinz, Eugene Carson Blake, A. Philip Randolph, President John F. Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Reuther, and Roy Wilkins. All are wearing dark-colored suits, some with white March on Washington buttons pinned to their lapels.

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