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Roy Ottoway Wilkins (geboren am 30. August 1901 in St. Louis, Missouri; gestorben am 8. September 1981 in Manhattan, New York) war ein US-amerikanischer Aktivist und Bürgerrechtler.
Roy Ottoway Wilkins (August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981) was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s.
16. Apr. 2024 · Roy Wilkins (born Aug. 30, 1901, St. Louis, Mo., U.S.—died Sept. 8, 1981, New York, N.Y.) was a black American civil-rights leader who served as the executive director (1955–77) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Roy Wilkins spent more than four decades at NAACP and held the top job at the civil rights organization for 22 years, beginning in 1955. A young journalist Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1901, Wilkins grew up with his aunt and uncle in St. Paul, Minnesota.
21. Jan. 2007 · Roy Wilkins (1901-1981), White House, April 30, 1968. Photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto, Courtesy White House. Roy Wilkins, one of the leading US civil rights activists of the twentieth century, was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
15. Mai 2014 · The legacy of slavery, Roy Wilkins once wrote, divided African Americans into two camps: victims of bondage who suffered passively, hoping for a better day, and rebels who heaped coals of fire on everything that smacked of inequality. Wilkins belonged among the rebels.
21. Feb. 2024 · Roy Wilkins, left, executive secretary of the NAACP, and Medgar Evers, center, field secretary of the NAACP, are arrested for picketing on June. 1, 1963, in downtown Jackson, Mississippi. (AP...
