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Roy Ottoway Wilkins (August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981) was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s.
16 de abr. de 2024 · Roy Wilkins was a black American civil-rights leader who served as the executive director (1955–77) of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was often referred to as the senior statesman of the U.S. Civil Rights Movement.
Roy Wilkins was the executive director of NAACP for 22 years and cofounded the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. He participated in historic marches and fought for civil rights legislation, nonviolence and dignity for Black Americans.
15 de may. de 2014 · The legacy of slavery, Roy Wilkins once wrote, divided African Americans into two camps: victims of bondage who suffered passively, hoping for a better day, and rebels who heaped coals of fire on everything that smacked of inequality.
21 de ene. de 2007 · Learn about Roy Wilkins, a leading US civil rights activist and the executive director of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977. He played a key role in the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1967.
Introduced at the August 1963 March on Washington as "the acknowledged champion of civil rights in America," Roy Wilkins headed the oldest and largest of the civil rights organizations. The NAACP, founded in 1909, aimed to achieve by peaceful and lawful means equal rights for all Americans.
Roy Wilkins was the executive secretary of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977, and collaborated with Martin Luther King on many campaigns for racial equality. He valued the legal approach and the nonviolent direct action of the civil rights movement, and praised King's leadership and courage.
