Testimonial in K.C.K. to Honor Roy Wilkins

Article reporting the return of Roy Wilkins to Kansas City to be honored at a church in Kansas City, Kansas. Wilkins was the executive director of the NAACP for 21 years, after working as a writer and editor for the Kansas City Call from 1923 to 1931.

1976-04-27

Wilkins, Roy
African Americans
Kansas City Call Building
Ethnic History

Wilkins said in a 1975 Kansas City Star interview that "the whole treatment in Kansas City was such that I felt I should get in the civil rights movement".

Newspaper Article

The Kansas City Star

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Periodical

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