The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Roger Wilkins

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Roger Wilkins

6/22/2001

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2001.078

Newspaper columnist Roger Wilkins (1932 - 2017 ) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and publisher of NAACP journal, "The Crisis." In 1972, Wilkins began writing for the editorial page of, "The Washington Post," just as the Watergate scandal was breaking, winning him a shared Pulitzer Prize, along with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein and cartoonist Herb Block. Wilkins was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 6/22/2001, in Washington, D.C.. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 7; Total Run Time: 03h 26m 45s

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished professor Roger Wilkins was born in 1932 in Kansas City, Missouri. His father, a business manager with a prominent black paper,The Kansas City Call, died when Wilkins was a child and the family moved to New York and then to Michigan, where Wilkins spent most of his formative years.Wilkins attended the University of Michigan, receiving his B.A. in 1953 and his J.D. in 1956, interning with Thurgood Marshall at the NAACP's Legal Defense Fund. Followin...