Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march]
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U.S. Information Agency. Press and Publications Service. (ca. 1953 - ca. 1978)
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Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march]
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Scope and content: Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march (from left to right)
Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; (seated with glasses)
Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of the Demonstration Committee; (standing behind the two chairs) Rabbi
Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Congress; (beside Robinson is)
A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the demonstration, veteran labor leader who helped to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL), and a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); (wearing a bow tie and standing beside Prinz is)
Joseph L. Rauh Jr., a Washington, DC attorney and civil rights, peace, and union activist;
John Lewis, Chairman,
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and
Floyd McKissick, National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.]
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