Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkins
Roy Wilkinswas a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was in his leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People...
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth30 August 1901
CitySt. Louis, MO
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The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America.
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Slowly we have lifeted ourselves by our own bootstraps. Step by halting step, we have beat our way back
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. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.