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12 Apr 2018, 1:01 pm by Matthew Flyntz
The Roy Wilkins Center for Human Relations and Social Justice at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and the Federal University of Espirito Santo are co-hosting the 5th World Conference on Remedies to Racial and Ethnic Economic Inequality on September 26-29, 2018. [read post]
16 May 2014, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
The Power of One: Roy Wilkins and the Civil Rights Movement. [read post]
14 Nov 2014, 4:53 am
Another uncovered portion of the note praises “older leaders” like the N.A.A.C.P. executive director Roy Wilkins, urging King to step aside and let other men lead the civil rights movement. [read post]
28 Aug 2017, 3:12 am by NCC Staff
Roy Wilkins asked the marchers to honor Du Bois with a moment of silence. 7. [read post]
13 Aug 2014, 10:35 am by Kent Scheidegger
In those days there was Martin Luther King Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference; Roy Wilkins of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Whitney Young of the National Urban League, Bayard Rustin of the A. [read post]
5 Nov 2015, 6:48 am by Michael Geist
  These include Margaret Laurence, Gabrielle Roy, Marian Engel, Marshall McLuhan, and Donald Creighton. [read post]
28 Aug 2015, 1:25 am by rhapsodyinbooks
” The diverse collection of speakers and performers at the march included singers Marian Anderson, Odetta, Joan Baez, and Bob Dylan; Little Rock civil rights veteran Daisy Lee Bates; actors Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee; American Jewish Congress president Rabbi Joachim Prinz; Randolph; UAW president Walter Reuther; march organizer Bayard Rustin; NAACP president Roy Wilkins; National Urban League president Whitney Young and SNCC leader John Lewis. 


But the high… [read post]
5 Nov 2008, 1:24 pm
Oh my, how far we have come...On May 21, 1961, civil rights leaders Oliver Hill, Roy Wilkins, and Reverend Francis L. [read post]
18 May 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
 The unsung heroes on which Risen focuses instead are Hubert Humphrey, the liberal Democratic Senator from Minnesota, who worked tirelessly to ensure the bill’s passage; the Republican Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, who helped secure crucial Republican votes for the bill in the Senate (the Democrats knew that opposition to the bill would be the strongest from the Southern wing of their own party, making passage impossible without significant Republican support); conservative… [read post]
27 Sep 2019, 2:00 am by Christopher Tyner
  Late last week Governor Roy Cooper signed legislation known as the “Survivor Act” into law. [read post]
7 Feb 2022, 5:58 am by Daniel Schwartz
  She’s received over 35 honorary doctoral degrees and many awards including the NAACP’s Roy Wilkins Award. [read post]
6 Jan 2016, 7:15 am by Michael Geist
These include Margaret Laurence, Gabrielle Roy, Marian Engel, Marshall McLuhan, and Donald Creighton. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 9:01 pm by Jim Sedor
Roy Cooper announced his initial choices for a new s [read post]
20 Jan 2020, 1:36 pm by Eugene Volokh
Louis Wright's armed preparations come to us secondhand from Roy Wilkins, who writes: "Louis came from Atlanta. [read post]
17 Feb 2010, 11:45 am by Chris Schmidt
  So were Roy Wilkins and Martin Luther King, Jr., also practitioners of strategic constitutionalism? [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 6:12 am
NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins dismissively called him “the Lancelot of Monroe,” and NAACP counsel and future Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall even suggested to the FBI that the agency investigate Williams. [read post]
30 Jan 2014, 5:24 am
Louis Wright’s armed preparations come to us secondhand from Roy Wilkins, who writes: “Louis came from Atlanta. [read post]