(August 30, 1901 – September 8, 1981)
Executive Director, (click here) National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
A prominent civil rights activist (click here) in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and between 1931 and 1934 was assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White. When W. E. B. Du Bois left the organization in 1934, Wilkins replaced him as editor of Crisis, the official magazine of the NAACP....
