Roy Wilkins

A Tribute to a Living Legend: Civil Rights Icon John Lewis

Stacy M. Brown NNPA, Newswire Senior CorrespondentJanuary 9, 2020

In 1965, Lewis and fellow activist Hosea Williams led what was planned as a peaceful 54-mile march through Alabama from Selma to Montgomery. The march, a protest of the discriminatory practices and Jim Crow laws that prevented African Americans from voting, would be remembered in history as “Bloody Sunday,” one of the most dramatic and violent incidents of the American Civil Rights Movement.

History National News (Business)

The Storied History of the NAACP

Stacy M. Brown, NNPA NewswireJuly 25, 2019

The NAACP plans to highlight 110 years of civil rights history, and the current fight for voting rights, criminal justice reform, economic opportunity and education quality during its 110th national convention now happening in Detroit.

Marc Morial Op-Ed Opinion

National Urban League Mourns the Loss of Civil Rights Champion Roger Wilkins

Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban LeagueApril 12, 2017

For Roger Wood Wilkins, the Civil Rights Movement was the family business. When Wilkins was born in 1932 in segregated Kansas City, Missouri, his uncle Roy Wilkins already was a well-known journalist and activist serving as assistant NAACP secretary, and later would serve as executive director.