President Truman with members of the Committee on Civil Rights

President Harry S. Truman with the Special Committee on Civil Rights. They are posing in the oval office. L to R: Right Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill, presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church; Channing Tobias, of New York City, Director of Phelps-Stokes Fund; Richard Potter, a guest not on the committee; Rabbi Roland G. Gittelsohn, Rockville Center, New York; Francis P. Matthews, Omaha, Nebraska; Morris Ernst, New York City; John S. Dickey (rear), President of Dartmouth College; James B. Carey, Secretary-Treasurer of the C.I.O.; Dr. Sadie Alexander, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; C. E. Wilson, President of General Electric; President Truman; Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids, Michigan; Dorothy Rogers Tilly, Atlanta, Georgia; Boris Shishkin, Alexandria, Virginia; Dr. Frank P. Graham, President, University of North Carolina; Charles Luckman, Cambridge, Massachusetts; and Attorney General Tom Clark, not a committee member. (Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., a member of the committee, was not present when the photograph was made.)