Word: naacp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...help edit the Kansas City Call, a Negro weekly newspaper. It was in Kansas City, with its "segregated schools, segregated movie theaters, segregated restaurants, practically segregated everything" that he "realized the meaning of racial discrimination." In 1931, Wilkins left the Call to become assistant secretary of the then struggling NAACP...
Wilkins' early work with the NAACP included investigating lynchings in the South, initiating court cases and lobbying for a federal anti-lynching law. His work rarely involved the mass participation so common to civil rights activity today. In 1950 Wilkins succeeded Walter White as executive secretary of the NAACP. As executive secretary, he has worked mainly with problems of discrimination in public education...
...Negro revolt of the 1960's, according to Wilkins, was made possible by the foundations the NAACP has laid. "This is a social movement that has been building since 1920," he says. "The eruption happened because of the NAACP. Officers of the NAACP began the first sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina." Has the rise of the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee undercut the NAACP's importance in the Movement? "Hell, SNCC's our baby! We raised them! We got 117,000 new members last year, they have only 150. How can you call...
...stay-out was designed to protest the Boston School Committee's failure to produce, at the NAACP'S request, a time-table of steps for reducing de facto segregation in public schools. The Boston press has consistently added "alleged" to "de facto segregation," but almost no one denies that the Roxbury public schools are in fact ninety percent segregated. Mrs. Hicks only claims that changing the Roxbury situation would involve sending children by bus from one neighborhood to another, an uprooting which she considers cruel. The NAACP, on the other hand, has announced that it too is opposed...
Wilkins agreed to come to Cambridge to speak at the Quincy House mid-winter dinner. He also planned to participate in an NAACP march at 5 p.m. from the Boston School Committee office to city hall, but the march has been put back an hour and Wilkins' plane does not arrive until 4:30 p.m. A press conference will be held at the airport; from there Wilkins will go to a reception and dinner at Quincy House...