President John F. Kennedy Meets with Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

President John F. Kennedy (center) holds a bound volume of the United States Commission on Civil Rights' report, "Freedom to the Free," presented to him and autographed by officers and members of the Commission, during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C.
Left to right: Robert S. Rankin, Chairman of the Political Science Department at Duke University; William L. Taylor, Commission Assistant Staff Director for Liaison and Information (in back); Berl I. Bernhard, Commission Staff Director; M. Carl Holman, Commission Information Officer (in back); Robert G. Storey, Commission Vice Chairman and President of the Southwestern Legal Center; Clarence Clyde Ferguson, Jr., Commission General Counsel (in back); President Kennedy; Spottswood W. Robinson, III, Dean of Howard University Law School; Erwin N. Griswold, Dean of Harvard Law School; and Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., President of Notre Dame University.