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In the midst of the week's melees, a score of Negro leaders representing every stripe, from the moderation of Roy Wilkins to the militance of Floyd McKissick, met outside New York City. Their agreed aim was to head off further racial eruptions this summer, and after the meeting...
ROY WILKINS
Roy Wilkins, L.H.D., executive director of the N.A.A.C.P. Wise counseling in the struggle for justice and equality for Negroes, without resorting to violence.
Predictably, Air Force Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr., the highest-ranking Negro officer in any service-and son of the first Negro general, Benjamin O. Davis-rates high with Negro servicemen. So do such moderates as the N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins, U.S. Solicitor General (and longtime civil rights...
Last-Ditch Verdict. Soon after Selma came Johnson's finest hour of putting down lawlessness: the trial of the three Klansmen for gunning down Detroit Housewife Viola Liuzzo on Route 80 after the march. A Lowndes County jury had acquitted Collie Leroy Wilkins, though an FBI informant testified that...