set to portray him in the 2023 Netflix film Rustin. See also Civil rights movement (1896–1954) Leadership Conference on Civil Rights List of civil rights leaders Roger Wilkins, nephew of Roy, also a prominent civil rights activist Roy Wilkins Auditorium, an arena in Saint Paul, Minnesota Timeline of the civil rights movement Thurgood Marshall, Wilkins' colleague at the NAACP and U.S. Supreme Court Justice March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom References Sources Yvonne Ryan, Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2014. Arvarh E. Strickland, "Roy Wilkins," American National Biography Online, February. 2000. External links Roy Wilkins in MNopedia, the Minnesota Encyclopedia The Roy Wilkins Memorial in St. Paul, Minnesota: a virtual tour. The Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Oral History Interview with Roy Wilkins, from the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library Roy Wilkins's FBI files hosted at the Internet Archive 1901 births 1981 deaths African-American activists 20th-century American writers African-American journalists American magazine editors Congressional Gold Medal recipients NAACP activists People from Saint Paul, Minnesota People from St. Louis Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients Spingarn Medal winners University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts alumni