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Correspondence; memoranda; mss. of speeches, newspaper columns, and articles; subject files; reports; minutes; committee, board, and administrative records; and other papers, relating primarily to Wilkins's career with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, including his tenure as executive director (1965-1977)

Letter to Edward Walt of Colorado from the Executive Director of the NAACP concerning acknowledgement of the civil right struggle

Correspondence; memoranda; diary; minutes; speeches; reports; newspaper columns; articles; subject files; committee, board, and administrative material; biographical material; printed matter; and other papers relating primarily to Wilkins's career with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in various positions between 1931 and 1977, especially his service as executive director (1965-1977). Subjects include civil rights and the civil rights movement in the U.S., education for African Americans, labor and unemployment, racial discrimination, racial segregation and segregation in education, and the relationship of W.E.B. Du Bois to the NAACP. Includes drafts and published copies of The Roy Wilkins Column and of columns Wilkins wrote for the New Amsterdam News, a weekly newspaper reporting news involving Africans and African Americans

Family background, childhood, education, St. Paul and Minneapolis; job discrimination; journalism, Kansas City CALL; discrimination in Kansas City; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Walter White; housing, New York, N.Y.; travel; labor problems in the South; THE CRISIS; Negroes in government; anti-lynching bills; industrial integration; 1941 March on Washington; Fair Employment Practices Committee; Supreme Court desegregation decision, 1954

Family background, childhood, education, St. Paul and Minneapolis; job discrimination; journalism, Kansas City CALL; discrimination in Kansas City; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Walter White; housing, New York, N.Y.; travel; labor problems in the South; THE CRISIS; Negroes in government; anti-lynching bills; industrial integration; 1941 March on Washington; Fair Employment Practices Committee; Supreme Court desegregation decision, 1954

Civil rights leader

A transcript of Roy Wilkins oral history interviews with William Ingersoll. Wilkins discusses his family background, his childhood and education in St. Paul and Minneapolis, job discrimination and journalism in Kansas City, southern labor problems, New York housing, race relations and industrial integration, the 1941 March on Washington, and other race-related topics. Forms part of Columbia University Oral History Collection (Part One)

Civil rights leader

Folder contains a program for the 3rd Annual King-Walker-Wilkins-Young Memorial Awards Dinner

Includes photostats of storyboards for a promotional film by Jack Cornwell; mock-ups or layouts for NAACP membership posters; one portrait of NAACP Executive Director, Roy Wilkins