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“NAACP History: Roy Wilkins.” NAACP, www.naacp.org/oldest-and-boldest/naacp-history-roy-wilkins/.

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Wilkins supported a proposal made by Dr. T.R.M Howard of mound bayou, who was the head of the Regional Council of Negro Leadership. under this plan, black businesses would shift their accounts to the black owned tri-state of Memphis, Tennessee, raising over $280,000 for this purpose.

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in 1967 Wilkins was awarded  the Presidential Medal of Freedom, given by Lyndon Johnson. the NAACP led the nation into the civil rights movement and it led to significant civil rights victories including brown Vs. Board of Education.

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Roy Wilkins Participated in many important historical events, such as the march on Washington in 1963, the Selma to Montgomery marches in 1965, and the march against fear in 1966.

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in 1955, Roy Wilkins was announced executive secretary (in 1964 was changed to executive director) of the NAACP. He was an excellent, articulate spokesperson for the civil rights movement.

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in 1950, Roy Wilkins, A. Phillip Randolph, (the founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters) and Arnold Aronson, (leader of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council) founded the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights (LCCR)

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With a college degree in sociology he got from graduating from the University of Minnesota, he became a journalist for the Minnesota Daily, and was an editor of St. Paul appeal.

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Roy Wilkins was an active member of the NAACP. From 1931 to 1934, he was assistant NAACP secretary, and when W.E.B Du Bois left in 1934, Wilkins replaced him as the editor of Crisis, the NAACP's official magazine

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Roy Wilkins was born on August 30th, 1901 and died September 8th, 1981. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and lived with his aunt and uncle in St. Paul, Minnesota.