A senior administration official said the gathering would be a “first-of-its-kind (event) as the President will convene leaders who represent different generations of civil rights leaders.”

That includes young activists from groups formed in the wake of incidents of police violence in places like Ferguson, Missouri, and Baltimore.

A White House statement said Aislinn Pulley, a leader of Black Lives Matter Chicago, and Deshaunya Ware, a student leader of the University of Missouri protest group Concerned Student 1950, would attend the meeting.

Other invited leaders include Al Sharpton, president of the National Action Network, NAACP President Cornell Brooks and National Urban League leader Marc Morial.