Civil rights leaders pose with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. (L-R) Front row: unidentified man (mostly out of frame); Publisher of the Philadelphia Tribune E. Washington Rhodes; Director of the Anti-Defamation League B'nai B'rith Benjamin Epstein; Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Attorney General Kennedy; executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Roy Wilkins; Vice President Johnson; President of United Auto Workers (UAW) Walter P. Reuther; President of the National Urban League Whitney M. Young, Jr. (partially hidden); Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz; President of the Negro American Labor Council (NALC) A. Philip Randolph (partially out of frame). (L-R) Second row: unidentified man; President of the National Association of Colored Women Dr. Rosa Gragg; unidentified man (mostly hidden behind RFK). (L-R) Back row: unidentified man; Director of Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) James Farmer; unidentified man; unidentified man (partially hidden); President of the Southern Regional Council James McBride Dabbs; lawyer James Scheuer; President of the National Council of Negro Women Dorothy Height (mostly hidden behind LBJ); program director for the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council Arnold Aronson (partially hidden behind Height’s hat); founder of the Catholic Interracial Council George K. Hunton; Director of the Social Action Department of the National Catholic Welfare Conference John F. Cronin.
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