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[Roy Wilkins with 4 boyhood friends during the period he was attending Mechanical Arts High School, before 1920, on a bike trip] – Antique Wall Art

[Roy Wilkins with 4 boyhood friends during the period he was attending Mechanical Arts High School, before 1920, on a bike trip], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Roy Wilkins with 4 boyhood friends during the period he was attending Mechanical Arts High School, before 1920, on a bike trip], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Five young men pose with their bicycles in this picture of Roy Wilkins and four boyhood friends, taken while he attended Mechanical Arts High School in St. Louis, before 1920. Wilkins, born in 1901, went on to lead the NAACP as its executive secretary from 1955 to 1977. The caption card records no exact date, so the outing can be placed only as early in his school years. Bicycle outings were a common pastime for boys of that era, and the photograph offers a glimpse of Wilkins well before his public career began.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesNAACP national office in New York. Published in LCQJ, Spring 1982, p. 117. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bicycles and tricycles; BI; Shelf. Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,182 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149990

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