Wilkins, Roy Ottoway
1901-1981 · Contribution: 1955-1977
Law & Civil Rights
Led the NAACP for 22 years as executive secretary and director, guiding the organization through Brown v. Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965; helped organize the 1963 March on Washington
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Wilkins steered the NAACP through the legislative triumphs of the civil-rights era, favoring the courts and Congress over confrontation.
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