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Other prominent figures, including Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; James Farmer, national chairman of the Congress for Racial Equality; and John Lewis, national chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, each sent a message praising DuBois as the founder of...
Wreath of Coins. Selassie did, however, have something serious on his mind: his sympathy for U.S. Negroes in their drive for civil rights and his high regard for President Kennedy's efforts to aid that drive. The Emperor insisted on meeting N.A.A.C.P. Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins, laid a 50...
> In Richmond the Rev. Martin Luther King, echoing a suggestion by Negro Author James Baldwin, called for a nationwide boycott of Christmas-gift buying as a symbolic gesture to the six Negro children who were killed recently in Birmingham (TIME, Sept. 27). One adverse response came from Roy Wilkins, executive...
Wherein, then, lay the triumph of the march? Civil rights leaders themselves had a hard time putting it into words. "We subpoenaed the conscience of the nation," said Martin Luther King Jr. "We have developed a new unity among the leadership of the civil rights movement," declared A. Philip Randolph...
The crowd liked Lewis. But then came more speeches, some of them rather dull, and all of them overlong. People began to mill around, many even started to leave. But their attention was captured once again by a slender, low-toned speaker wearing a blue legionnaire-type cap. He was...