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Document 157357

ROY WILKINS
Civil Rights leader and Director of the NAACP.
Photograph signed: "Roy Wilkins". B/w, 5x8 overall, image 4¼x6½ (one surface). Wilkins, who had been appointed Assistant Executive Secretary of the NAACP in 1931, edited the organization's journal, "Crisis", from 1934-1949. He was Executive Secretary of the NAACP from 1955-1965, and served as Executive Director from 1965 until his retirement in 1977. Wilkins played a major role in the preparation of the "Brown v Board of Education of Topeka" school desegregation case (1954) and was later one of the organizers of the 1963 March on Washington. In 2001, Wilkins was honored on a 34-cent U.S. postage stamp. Lightly creased. Light paper clip impression at top left margin. Overall, fine condition.

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