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Roy Wilkins

Gender:Male
Era:1960s
State:Mississippi
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NAACP
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Biography

Roy Wilkins is individually documented in Charles Payne’s history of civil-rights-related custody in Mississippi.

Payne describes the NAACP leader’s arrest during a Jackson demonstration amid the 1963 boycott campaign. The account does not supply a particular arrest day, jail-admission date, release date or actual duration.

Sources: Charles Payne, I’ve Got the Light of Freedom (2007 edition), original PDF page 198.

Case

Arrested: 1963