Roy Wilkins : the quiet revolutionary and the NAACP / Yvonne Ryan.

"In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America. While activists in Alabama were treading the highways between Selma and Montgomery, Wilkins...

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Uniform Title:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Main Author: Ryan, Yvonne, 1961-
Language:English
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2014]
Series:Civil rights and the struggle for Black equality in the twentieth century.
Subjects:
Wilkins, Roy, > 1901-1981.
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People > Biography.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Civil rights workers > United States > Biography.
African American civil rights workers > Biography.
Genre:
Biography.
Physical Description:285 pages, 8 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • The Family Firm
  • Treading Water
  • A Strategy for Freedom
  • Politics and Protest
  • All the Way with LBJ
  • A Crisis of Victory
  • The Survivor.