Reminiscences of Roy Wilkins, 1960
- Name
- Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 (Interviewee)
- Ingersoll, William T (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Roy Wilkins, 1960
- Abstract
- Family background, childhood, education, St. Paul and Minneapolis; job discrimination; journalism, Kansas City CALL; discrimination in Kansas City; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Walter White; housing, New York, N.Y.; travel; labor problems in the South; THE CRISIS; Negroes in government; anti-lynching bills; industrial integration; 1941 March on Washington; Fair Employ ment Practices Committee; Supreme Court desegregation decision, 1954
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- African American journalists; Civil rights workers; African Americans--Civil rights; African Americans--Segregation; African Americans--Social conditions; United States Race relations; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- 130 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Civil rights leader
- Note
- Interviewed by William T. Ingersoll
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15345191
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-90my-4s84
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.