Roy Ottoway Wilkins (August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981) was an American civil rights leader from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins' most notable role was...
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Roy Wilkins Auditorium (nicknamed The Roy) is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena in St. Paul, Minnesota. Designed by the renowned municipal architect Clarence...
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leaders including Adam Clayton Powell, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins. Mahalia Jackson performed. The 1963 march was part of the rapidly expanding...
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to: Roy Wilkins (American football) (1933–2002), American football linebacker Roy Wilkins (cricketer) (1892–1965), Australian cricketer Roy Wilkins Auditorium...
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brands. Bowers & Wilkins began as a radio and electronics shop in Worthing. It was started after World War II by John Bowers & Roy Wilkins, who had met while...
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Big Six (activists) (section Roy Wilkins)
Six—Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins and Whitney Young—were the leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations...
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Viola Liuzzo (redirect from Collie LeRoy Wilkins)
respects. Among them were Martin Luther King Jr., NAACP executive director Roy Wilkins, Congress on Racial Equality national leader James Farmer, Michigan lieutenant...
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became assistant attorney general in the Johnson administration. Wilkins' uncle, Roy Wilkins, was the former executive director of the National Association...
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years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins. Its mission in the 21st century is "to ensure the political, educational...
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Canada Wilkins Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Glover Wilkins Lock, a lock in Mississippi Roy Wilkins Auditorium, an arena in Minnesota Wilkins Mill...
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Roy Wilkins Park, originally known as Southern Queens Park, is a 54-acre (22 ha) park in the St. Albans neighborhood of southeastern Queens in New York...
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Roy Wilkins was a highly respected senior official of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and in 1980 the Association created...
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Women's Hockey League history, and took place on June 10, 2024 at the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Sarah Fillier was selected first...
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Emmett Till (redirect from Roy Bryant)
being neutralized by the NAACP. In response, NAACP executive secretary Roy Wilkins characterized the incident as a lynching and said that Mississippi was...
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the Roy Wilkins Auditorium, and the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, and shares a single indoor access area with the RiverCentre and Roy Wilkins Auditorium...
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Roy Wilkins (18 April 1892 – 17 July 1965) was an Australian cricketer. He played two first-class matches for Tasmania between 1925 and 1926. List of...
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Roy Lee Wilkins (December 26, 1933 – October 4, 2002) was an American football linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the Los Angeles Rams...
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long-time New York Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. and NAACP leader Roy Wilkins are highly critical of Rustin on account of his romantic orientation—calling...
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letter praised "older leaders" of the civil rights movement such as Roy Wilkins. On March 8, 1971, an activist group called the Citizens' Commission...
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application of a declared constitutional right".: 184 In United States v. Wilkins (1964), he concluded that the Fifth Amendment's protection against double...
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Primary and Extended Care Facility. A portion of the hospital site became Roy Wilkins Park in the 1980s. Within St. Albans is the small western enclave of...
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of Marcus Garvey; he learned to display a skillful verbal dexterity. Roy Wilkins, his successor at the NAACP, said: "White was one of the best talkers...
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such as Ella Baker and James Forman, and opposed by others, such as Roy Wilkins (the national NAACP chairman) and Martin Luther King Jr. In 1961, Maya...
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Cleveland Robinson, A. Philip Randolph, Martin Luther King Jr., and Roy Wilkins; (standing L-R) Mathew Ahmann, Joachim Prinz, John Lewis, Eugene Carson...
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producer The One and Only Dick Gregory Himself Documentary 2022 Amsterdam Milton King 2023 PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie Cat Rubble Voice Rustin Roy Wilkins...
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shortly after the polls close at 8 p.m. Whitney Young, civil rights leader Roy Wilkins, executive director of the NAACP Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles...
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support, NAACP chairman Roy Wilkins did not want Rustin to receive any public credit for his role in planning the march. Roy Wilkins said, "This march is...
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Presbyterian Church; A. Philip Randolph; labor leader Walter Reuther; Roy Wilkins of the NAACP; and (not visible in the image to the right) Secretary of...
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Championship Wrestling (ECW). It took place on October 1, 2000 from the Roy Wilkins Auditorium in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Before the show aired live on pay-per-view...
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demolished in 1998. It once sat near the Ordway Music Theater and the Roy Wilkins Auditorium. The Xcel Energy Center was built on the former site of the...
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