Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C26220
President John F. Kennedy meets with members of the Committee on Equal Opportunity in the Armed Forces. Left to right: attorney, Laurence I. Hewes; attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Nathaniel S. Colley; journalist and head of the Southern Regional Council’s Southern Leadership Project, Benjamin Muse; attorney and Committee Chairman, Gerhard Gesell; President Kennedy; Executive Director of the National Urban League, Whitney M. Young; Publisher of the Chicago Defender, John H. Sengstacke; and attorney, Abe Fortas. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C. [Spots at top of image are original to the negative.]
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