Black leaders join hands at a panel discussion

Four of the nation's leading black spokesmen join hands prior in a gesture of unity and solidarity to participating in a panel discussion at Boston College's Roberts Center on December 8, 1969. L-R: Roy Wilkens, Executive Director of the N.A.A.C.P.; Mesia Hewett, new Chairman of the Black Panthers; Dr. Ralph Abernathy, President of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; and Roy Ennis, Director of the Congress of Racial Equality. (UPI Photo/Files)