Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins (1901-1981), full name Roy Ottoway Wilkins, was a US civil rights leader. He was a prominent activist in the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. He was head of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) during 1955-1977.

Wisdom & Quotes

• We have suffered too many heart-aches and shed too many tears and too much blood in fighting the evil of racial segregation to return in 1969 to the lonely and dispiriting confines of its demeaning prison.

Souvana Phouma