Photograph of President Dwight D. Eisenhower Receiving a Group of Prominent Civil Rights Leaders

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Photograph of President Dwight D. Eisenhower Receiving a Group of Prominent Civil Rights Leaders

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In this photograph the civil rights leaders are from left to right: Lester Granger, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., E. Frederic Morrow, Eisenhower, A. Philip Randolph, William Rogers, Rocco Siciliano, and Roy Wilkins.

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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. ...