Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C.

January 15, 2017Politics20th century in the United States, A. Philip Randolph, AFL–CIO, African-American Civil Rights Movement, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, City: Washington, City: Washington DC, Cleveland Robinson, Floyd McKissick, Joachim Prinz, John Lewis, Joseph L. Rauh Jr., Joseph Rauh Jr, March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Martin Luther King Jr., Mathew Ahmann, Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Politics, Religion/Belief, United Statessmbale

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. [Leaders of the march (from left to right) Mathew Ahmann, Executive Director of the National Catholic Conference for Interracial Justice; (seated with glasses) Cleveland Robinson, Chairman of the Demonstration Committee; (standing behind the two chairs) Rabbi Joachim Prinz, President of the American Jewish Congress; (beside Robinson is) A. Philip Randolph, organizer of the demonstration, veteran labor leader who helped to found the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, American Federation of Labor (AFL), and a former vice president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); (wearing a bow tie and standing beside Prinz is) Joseph Rauh, Jr, a Washington, DC attorney and civil rights, peace, and union activist; John Lewis, Chairman, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; and Floyd McKissick, National Chairman of the Congress of Racial Equality.]