Abe Leo Cohn (center) receives award for outstanding service as a board member of Urban League of Portland, as Edwin C. Berry, Executive secretary, looks on. President R. P. Gantenbein is making the presentation.
Governor Robert D. Holmes signs House Bills 646 and 647 which expanded Oregon civil rights statutes. Standing, left to right: Milton Goldsmith, chairman, FEP Advisory Committee; Labor Commissioner Norman O. Nilsen; Dr. John Rademaker, professor, Willamette University; R. P. Gantenbein, Chairman, Oregon Committee for Equal Rights; and Phil Reynolds, president, Portland Chapter, NAACP.