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Roy Wilkins dies at 80 after decades leading NAACP
Roy Wilkins, longtime head of the NAACP and key architect of civil rights litigation, died of kidney failure at New York University Medical Center. At 80, he had steered the association through desegregation, campus unrest, and rising militant challenges, shaping legal strategy and public education for change.
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