Title: Congratulate new president

Source: Brooklyn Eagle

Date: 1948

Format: 1 photographic print: b & w, gelatin silver; 8 x 10 in.

Call #: PORT 0183

Caption: "Congratulate new president--The Rev. Dr. William O. Carrington, second from right, pastor of the First A. M. E. Zion Church, Tompkins Ave. and McDonough St, first Negro elected president of the Brooklyn Church and Mission Federation and the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Council, accepts the congratulations of Borough President Cashmore. [Also pictured] are Walter Bruchhausen, second from left, president of the Brooklyn Bar Association and chairman of the Brooklyn Division of the Protestant Fund Raising Campaign, and Dr. T. Z. Koo, executive secretary of the World Student Federation."