Following the death of civil rights leader Walter White, Roy Wilkins was elected executive secretary of the NAACP. Wilkins would go on to serve as a key strategist and spokesperson during the Civil Rights Movement, advocating for desegregation, voting rights, and equal opportunity. His leadership helped shape the NAACP’s role in landmark events such as the 1963 March on Washington and the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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