photo of CORE national director James Farmer with 'the Big 6"

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photo of CORE national director James Farmer with 'the Big 6"

Description

"These six leaders of the nation's largest national black organizations met in New York's Roosevelt Hotel on July 2, 1963 to discuss plans for their projected civil right march on Washington, DC. They are from left; John Lewis, chairman of the Student Non Violence co -ordinating committee; Whitney Young, national director of the Urban League; A. Philp Randolph , president of the Negro American Labor Council; Dr. Martin Luther King , Jr., president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; James Farmer , director of Congress of Racial Equality; and Roy Wilkins; Executive Secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. "

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Creator

Harry Harris

Source

apimages.com

Publisher

apimages.com

Date

July 03, 1963

Rights

Harry Harris

Identifier

630703059

Citation

Harry Harris, “photo of CORE national director James Farmer with 'the Big 6",” The CORE Project, accessed October 8, 2024, http://www.thecoreproject.org/omeka/items/show/7.

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