African Americans - Six leaders of the nation's largest Negro organizations meet in New York's Hotel Roosevelt July 2, 1963 to plan a civil rights March on Washington. From left, are: John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, national director of the Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

March on Washington for civil rights


	March on Washington August 28, 1963 Six leaders of the nation's largest Negro organizations meet in New York's Hotel Roosevelt July 2, 1963 to plan a civil rights March on Washington. From left, are: John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee; Whitney Young, national director of the Urban League; A. Philip Randolph, president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer, Congress of Racial Equality director; and Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (AP/WWP Harry Harris) Next


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