Roy Wilkins

Roy Wilkins (August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981) was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s.

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Wilkins was born August 30, 1901 in St. Louis. He graduated from the University of Minnesota with a degree in sociology in 1923. He worked as a journalist at the Minnesota Daily and became editor of St. Paul Appeal, an African-American newspaper. After he graduated he became the editor of the Kansas City Call. In 1929 he married social worker Aminda "Minnie" Badeau; the couple had no children.

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