President Harry S. Truman meeting with a group of African-American leaders, who urged President Truman to put qualified African-Americans into administrative and policy-making jobs in the government as part of a broad program for greater participation by African-Americans in the Defense Program. President Truman in seated in center. Those in attendance were: William Y. Bell; Mary McLeod Bethune (seated, left); J. Robert Booker; A. Philip Randolph; Dowdal Davis; Lester Granger; Elmer Henderson; Charles S. Johnson; Benjamin E. Mays; Channing H. Tobias; Willard S.