Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7694-C
President John F. Kennedy hands a certificate of appointment to Chairman of the President's Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing, David L. Lawrence, during Chairman Lawrence's swearing-in ceremony. Left to right: Jack T. Conway, of the Industrial Union Department of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO); Chief Benefits Director for the Veterans Administration (VA), Philip Brownstein; unidentified (in back); Gerald Lawrence; Administrator of the Veterans Administration (VA), General John S. Gleason (in back, mostly obscured); President Kennedy; Chairman Lawrence (holding certificate); Alyce Lawrence; Commissioner of the Urban Renewal Administration, William L. Slayton; Assistant to the Federal Housing Commissioner, Oliver W. Hill. Cabinet Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
![](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/https/static.jfklibrary.org/s8g52vhu776q70ys681350t7r72q2ys4.jpg?itok=PqH-A0n-&odc=20240518123206-0400)