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Negro lawyer Wilkins breaks color barrier at White House meeting
Ernest Wilkins, a Chicago lawyer and labor official, was invited to a weekly cabinet session with President Eisenhower, becoming the first known Negro to sit in a White House cabinet gathering. The 60 year old was appointed Assistant Secretary of Labor last March and led the U S delegation to the ILO conference in Geneva amid international debate over racial issues.
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