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Civil Rights Leaders Meet President Kennedy
Immediately after the March on Washington, its leaders met with President Kennedy at the White House. They focused the conversation on the civil rights bill's economic shortcomings. Whitney Young insisted that the bill was directed at the South whereas the major problems were in the North. A. Philip Randolph reiterated the need for job creation and training. Roy Wilkins, A. Philip Randolph, and Walter Reuther tried to persuade Kennedy to support an FEPC provision and Part III, which authorized the attorney general to intervene in all civil rights cases, many of which involved violent repression of peaceful protests. |