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.