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Series of WSB-TV newsfilm clips of leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom meeting with president John F. Kennedy at the White House, Washington, D.C., 1963 August 28

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@ Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

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In this series of silent WSB-TV newsfilm clips from August 28, 1963, leaders of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom meet with president John F. Kennedy at the White House following the demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. As the clip begins, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and Walter P. Reuther of the United Automobile Workers of America (UAWA) walk along a tree-lined path, followed by other event organizers. They and the other men in the clip wear buttons on their jackets. The camera briefly focuses on the White House and then on camera men waiting outside the building. Next, the demonstration leaders walk past a building. First, King and Reuther walk together with John Lewis, head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC); they are followed by Whitney M. Young, Jr. of the National Urban League and Rabbi Joachim Prinz of the American Jewish Congregation; finally Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Floyd McKissick of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), and Mathew Ahmann of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice pass the camera.Inside the White House, photographers stand together and take pictures of the gathering. The camera focuses on several of the men standing together with the president; Young stands on the right of the group and A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the day's demonstrations and representative of the Negro American Labor Council, stands between the president with Dr....
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Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

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Digital Library of Georgia