Reminiscences of Roy Wilkins, 1960

Biographical Note

Civil rights leader

Scope and Contents

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

Subjects

• African American journalists--Interviews.
• African Americans--Civil rights.
• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• Civil rights workers--Interviews.
• Ingersoll, William T., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States--Race relations.
• Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981--Interviews.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1972