Photograph
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-037-006-p0011
Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy holds a press conference in his office upon signing the Treaty of Cambridge, an agreement between civil rights activists and city leaders to end segregation and put an end to violence in Cambridge, Maryland. (L-R, seated) Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Burke Marshall; Attorney General of Maryland Thomas B. Finan; civil rights activist Gloria Richardson; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; and Mayor of Cambridge Calvin W. Mowbray. (L-R, standing) Unidentified man (with bow tie); Dr. Arthur S. Parker, Cambridge City Commissioner; Charles Awdry Thompson, counsel for Commissioners of Cambridge; and Reginald Robinson, field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).