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LJ's reviewer asserted that even though Wilkins's autobiography offered no new revelations, it was nevertheless praised for giving "an excellent overview of the development and changes of the NAACP...a graphic picture of the civil rights movement in the 20th century" (LJ 7/82). This edition has a new introduction by Julian Bond.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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History will remember Roy Wilkins (1901–1981) as one of the great leaders of the twentieth century for his contributions to the advancement of civil rights in America. For nearly half a century—first as assistant secretary, also succeeding W. E. B. Dubois as editor of The Crisis, and finally succeeding Walter White as executive director—Roy Wilkins served and led the N.A.A.C.P. in their fight for justice for African Americans. Wilkins was a relentless pragmatist who advocated progressive change through legal action. He participated or led in the achievement of every major civil rights advance, working for the integration of the army, helping to plan and organize the historic march on Washington, and pushing every president from Franklin Roosevelt to Jimmy Carter to implement civil rights legislation. This is a dramatic story of one man's struggle for his people's rights, as well as a vivid recollection of the events and the people that have shaped modern black history.
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was not born in Mississippi, but my story begins there all the same, deep in the rolling hill country of northern Mississippi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jury trial amendment, policy boys, federal antilynching law, white bigots, antilynching bill, civil rights bill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, New York, Jim Crow, United States, Uncle Sam, Aunt Elizabeth, Grandfather Wilkins, Holly Springs, Los Angeles, Reverend King, Little Rock, President Eisenhower, Governor Faubus, Walter White, South Carolina, World War, Clarence Mitchell, Lyndon Johnson, Marshall County, Fifth Avenue, Thurgood Marshall, Urban League, Deep South, Democratic Party, North Carolina New!
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was not born in Mississippi, but my story begins there all the same, deep in the rolling hill country of northern Mississippi. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jury trial amendment, policy boys, federal antilynching law, white bigots, antilynching bill, civil rights bill Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Kansas City, New York, Jim Crow, United States, Uncle Sam, Aunt Elizabeth, Grandfather Wilkins, Holly Springs, Los Angeles, Reverend King, Little Rock, President Eisenhower, Governor Faubus, Walter White, South Carolina, World War, Clarence Mitchell, Lyndon Johnson, Marshall County, Fifth Avenue, Thurgood Marshall, Urban League, Deep South, Democratic Party, North Carolina New!
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- Martin Luther King (Famous People, Famous Lives) by Verna Wilkins on 4 pages
- Frederick Douglass by Booker T. Washington on page 74, and page 221
- Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions, and Reminiscences (The Library of Black America series) by Mark V. Tushnet on page 281, and page 299
- Stokely Carmichael: The Story of Black Power (History of Civil Rights Series) by Jacqueline Johnson on page 315, and page 331
- Born to Be (Blacks in the American West) by Taylor Gordon on page 115
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- Roy Wilkins: Leader Of The Naacp by Calvin Craig Miller on 6 pages
- Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (Politics and Culture in Modern America) by Simon Hall on 4 pages
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye on 4 pages
- Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class by Larry Tye on 4 pages
- Servants of the People: The 1960s Legacy of African American Leadership by Lea E. Williams on page 165, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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