Photographs of President Obama's meeting with Civil Rights leaders at the White House, February 18, 2016

President Obama met with civil rights leaders in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 18, 2016.  

This review contains photographs of that meeting.  Participants included Attorney General Loretta Lynch; Brittany Packnett, Member of the President's Task Force on 21st Century Policing, Co-Founder of We The Protestors and Campaign Zero; Representative John Lewis, D-Ga.; Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett; Al Sharpton, Founder and President of the National Action Network; Ben Crump, President of the National Bar Association; C.T. Vivian, Civil Rights Leader and Author; Carlos Clanton, President of the National Urban League Young Professionals; Cornell Brooks, President of the NAACP; Deray McKesson, Co-Founder of We the Protestors and Campaign Zero; Deshaunya Ware, Student Leader of Concerned Student 1950 at University of Missouri; Marc Morial, President of the National Urban League; Mary Patricia Hector, National Youth Director of the National Action Network; Melanie Campbell, President of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of Color of Change; Sherrilyn Ifill, President of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Stephen Green, National Director of the NAACP Youth and College Division; Wade Henderson, President of the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights.

424 assets

  • Photographs

The Executive Office of the President (EOP) instance of the Electronic Records Archive (ERA) contains electronic records created or received by Obama administration staff. These records are stored in Search and Access Sets (SAS) that represent their originating computer program, such as the White House Photo System.

The photographs are a subseries of a larger series, which includes all photographs taken by White House photographers during the Obama administration.  This subseries is arranged chronologically by the photo identifier (P number), which is formatted as PMMDDYYXX-####:

  • P (for Presidential photographs)
  • MMDDYY (Date of image capture)
  • XX (Photographer’s initials)
  • [dash]
  • Frame number

Electronic Records
Civil rights leaders White House meeting 2-18-2016 contains 424 photographs.
 

Collection is open to all researchers. Access to Barack Obama Presidential Records is governed by the Presidential Records Act (PRA) (44 USC 2201) and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 USC 552, as amended) and therefore records may be restricted in whole or in part in accordance with legal exemptions.

Audiovisual materials in this collection that were prepared by officials of the United States government as part of their official duties are in the public domain. Researchers are advised to consult the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, USC) which governs the making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material.

Official records of Barack Obama’s presidency are housed at the Barack Obama Presidential Library and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the provisions of the Presidential Records Act (PRA).

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