LBJ Recording of Telephone Conversation, WH Series, ROY WILKINS, 9:50A

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LBJ Recording of Telephone Conversation, WH Series, ROY WILKINS, 9:50A

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Time: 9:50A Place: MANSION Length of Conversation: 15:46 Outgoing call LBJ speaks. Speaker: ROY WILKINS Topics: SEATING OF MISSISSIPPI DELEGATION; NAACP POSITION ON MFDP; EFFECT OFMURDERS IN MISSISSIPPI; MLK'S REMARKS ABOUT GOLDWATER; POTENTIAL POLITICALPROBLEMS OF CONTROVERSY IN SOUTH, LARGE STATES; ALABAMA SUPPORT FOR GOLDWATER;LBJ'S SUPPORT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS Comments: "SEATING CERTAIN GROUPS AT CONVENTION, POLITICS"; "FROM MANSION";CONTINUES ON NEXT PNO; RECORDING STARTS AFTER CONVERSATION HAS BEGUN

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Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981

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Civil rights leader and journalist; d. 1981. From the description of Papers, 1915-1980. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 31605113 Roy Wilkins was born in St. Louis, Missouri, grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and graduated from the University of Minnesota. Wilkins edited the KANSAS CITY CALL, a Black newspaper, from 1923 to 1931. Wilkins became Assistant Secretary of the NAACP in 1931 and became Executive Secretary in 1955. Under his leadership the NAACP grew to 350,000 members. ...