Object Title
Roy Wilkins Lecture
Part of
American Race Crisis Lecture Series Audio Recordings
Material Category
Digital Audio
Type of Work
mp3
Description
Roy Wilkins begins by thanking the audience for attending an hour earlier than usual. He explains that as a leader within the NAACP, he must attend to its upcoming Freedom Spectacular, to benefit the NAACP’s voter registration work in the South. He also details the amount of cash bond monies that the NAACP has dispensed in support of such work, and announces that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will be attending the Spectacular. He discusses the Supreme Court cases of Brown v. Board of Education as well as Plessy v. Ferguson; he also details a number of specific ongoing actions in which the NAACP is involved: fair housing legislation in California, voting rights advocacy in the south, work to ensure fair funding of public schools in Boston’s African-American community, and the Civil Rights Act. During the question and answer portion, there is discussion of the Supreme Court’s phrase from Brown v. Board, “with all deliberate speed,” the proposed integration of New York City schools, an upcoming demonstration at New York’s City Hall, and socialist theory as applied to civil rights advocacy.
Date
May 14 1964
Related people
Roy Wilkins (speaker)
New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (sponsoring body)
Language
English
Civil rights, Civil rights movements--United States, Discrimination in education, Discrimination in housing Rights
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Identifier
NS070204_ARC_Wilkins
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Material Category
Digital AudioType of Work
mp3Description
Roy Wilkins begins by thanking the audience for attending an hour earlier than usual. He explains that as a leader within the NAACP, he must attend to its upcoming Freedom Spectacular, to benefit the NAACP’s voter registration work in the South. He also details the amount of cash bond monies that the NAACP has dispensed in support of such work, and announces that Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton will be attending the Spectacular. He discusses the Supreme Court cases of Brown v. Board of Education as well as Plessy v. Ferguson; he also details a number of specific ongoing actions in which the NAACP is involved: fair housing legislation in California, voting rights advocacy in the south, work to ensure fair funding of public schools in Boston’s African-American community, and the Civil Rights Act. During the question and answer portion, there is discussion of the Supreme Court’s phrase from Brown v. Board, “with all deliberate speed,” the proposed integration of New York City schools, an upcoming demonstration at New York’s City Hall, and socialist theory as applied to civil rights advocacy.Date
May 14 1964Related people
Roy Wilkins (speaker)New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) (sponsoring body)
Language
EnglishCivil rights, Civil rights movements--United States, Discrimination in education, Discrimination in housing
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ (copyrighted)Identifier
NS070204_ARC_WilkinsThere’s more! What you see on this site is only what is viewable online. Please visit archives.newschool.edu to find out more about what’s in the archives.