Roy Wilkins speaks at Michigan State University.

Roy Wilkins, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaks on education and the racial crisis throughout the United States. Professor Wilbur Brookover introduces the topic of the symposium and University President John A. Hannah talks about the integration of colored students at Michigan State University, then introduces Mr. Wilkins. Wilkins admires and honors Hannah for being the chairman of the Civil Rights Commission. Wilkins addresses the effects of education through history, the inevitable confrontation of human equality, and of the menace to America by the "perversion of the democratic process and its betrayal of the ideals of the western civilization." He discusses the laws of segregation and the Supreme Court decision in Brown vs. Board of Education. Symposium is held at the Fairchild Theater during the tenth anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling.

Recorded at Fairchild Theater and presented to the Voice Library by Wilbur Brookover, May 8, 1964.