Wilkins To Resign At The End Of The Year: Roy Wilkins, the 74-year-old Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, says he will resign at the end of the year. Wilkins, who has headed the country's oldest Civil Rights organization for 22 years, made the announcement Monday at a board of directors meeting.

Roy Wilkins (1901-1981) was an instrumental figure in Congress' passage of the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950s and 1960s. He was one of the key leaders who organized the historic March on Washington. Additionally, Wilkins helped to oversee an increase in membership in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 25,000 members in the 1930s to more than 400,000 by the 1970s.

On recto: typewritten title and date.
On verso: manuscript title, manuscript date, date stamps, library stamp and newspaper caption with date stamp affixed.

Wire photographs were originally transmitted over phonelines, then later, by satellite. They were first used in the early 1920s. Associated Press became a leader with this. After pigment touch-ups, etc., the print is put into a drum (like a drum scanner). The image gets converted into audio tones that are transmitted. The tones are received and beamed onto photo-sensitive paper. Wire photographs are copies without originals---they are hybrid, transmitted objects. (Britt Salvesen, Curator and Department Head, Photography Department, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, March 30-31, 2022)

This object has the following keywords:

• Civil Rights Movements
• Injustice
• Meetings
• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• Racial Discrimination
• Resignations
• Resignations
• Roy Wilkins

• Image Dimensions: 9 x 6 1/8 in. (22.86 x 15.56 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen
• Sheet Dimensions: 10 x 8 1/16 in. (25.4 x 20.48 cm) Measured by Hudson, Karen