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[Birthplace of Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis, Missouri] – Antique Print

[Birthplace of Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis, Missouri], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
[Birthplace of Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis, Missouri], [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the St. Louis 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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Step back in time with [Birthplace of Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis, Missouri], a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Birthplace of Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis, Missouri]

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Few pictures in this gallery tie so directly to one person's origins as this one, which shows the birthplace of civil rights leader Roy Wilkins on La Clede Place in St. Louis. Wilkins grew up in the city's Black community in the early twentieth century and later served as executive secretary of the NAACP from 1955 to 1977. The record gives no date for the photograph, though it notes publication in the Library of Congress's quarterly journal in spring 1982, so the year it was taken is uncertain. The record also links the picture to the NAACP's national office in New York, a reminder of how far Wilkins's work reached beyond his hometown.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print.
SubjectsNAACP national office in New York. Published in LCQJ, Spring 1982, p. 117. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Missouri--St. Louis; BI; Geogr.; Shelf.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,171 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-149991

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