Roy Wilkins: “The Clock Will Not Be Turned Back”

Further Reading

Articles

• Arnold, Martin. “There Is No Rest for Roy Wilkins.” New York Times, September 28, 1969.
• Krebs, Alan. “Roy Wilkins, 50-Year Veteran of Civil Rights Fight, Is Dead.” New York Times, September 9, 1981.
• Layton, Azza Salama. “International Pressure and the U.S. Government’s Response to Little Rock.” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 56, no 3 (Autumn 1997): 257–272.

Books

• Cook, Robert. Sweet Land of Liberty? The African-American Struggle for Civil Rights in the Twentieth Century. New York: Longman, 1998.
• Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000.
• Kirk, John A. Redefining the Color Line: Black Activism in Little Rock, Arkansas, 1940–1970. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2002.
• Ling, Peter J. Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Routledge, 2002.
• Ryan, Yvonne. “Leading from the Back: Roy Wilkins’s Leadership of the NAACP.” In Long Is the Way and Hard: One Hundred Years of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, ed. Kevern Verney and Lee Sartain. Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2009.
• Sitkoff, Harvard. The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954–1992. New York: Hill and Wang, 1993.
• Wilkins, Roy. “Integration Crisis in the South.” In In Search of Democracy: The NAACP Writings of James Weldon Johnson, Walter White, and Roy Wilkins (1920–1977), ed. Sondra Kathryn Wilson. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
• Wilkins Roy, with Tom Matthews. Standing Fast: The Autobiography of Roy Wilkins. New York: De Capo Press, 1994.

Web Sites

• “Civil Rights: The Little Rock School Integration Crisis.” Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum Web site. http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/littlerockdocuments.html.
• “History of the Little Rock Nine and Brown v. Board of Education.” Arkansas Department of Parks and Tourism Web site. http://www.arkansas.com/central-high/history/.
• “Roy Wilkins.” The NAACP Web site. http://naacp.org/about/history/wilkins/index.htm.