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The tall, lean Minnesotan known for his steady, genteel demeanor collaborated with — and butted heads with — Martin Luther King Jr. Du Bois, and he earned his share of friends and enemies during 22 years at the helm of the NAACP at the height of the civil rights movement. Based in New York, the national organization was regarded in its time as the most well-organized Black civil rights group in the country.

As early as , he also was arrested. It would be no small feat for the soft-spoken, high-brow integrationist from St. Paul, to this day overlooked in many a history lesson. I understand their impatience. I share it, but they should have some idea what it has taken to get them their right to raise hell. His adoptive mother helped the European immigrants in the neighborhood read their bills.

In the summer of , five years after bloody race riots and horrific lynchings tore apart Springfield, Ill. Paul, Minnesota, over two white candidates. Excited, Wilkins soon gave up his plans to become an engineer.