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|Creator:||United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation|
Roy Wilkins was an influential member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). He was a civil rights advocate who became affiliated with Martin Luther King, Jr. The FBI investigated alleged threats against Mr. Wilkins' life and proposed extortion plots.
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|Types:||Federal government records | Text|
|Subjects:||Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981 | King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968 | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | Threats of violence | Threats | Extortion | African American civil rights workers | Civil rights workers--United States | Civil rights--United States | African American journalists--United States | Journalists--United States | Governmental investigations--United States | United States|
|Collection:||FBI Freedom of Information Act Collection|
|Institution:||Federal Bureau of Investigation|
|Contributors:||United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation|
|Online Publisher:||[Washington, D.C.] : Federal Bureau of Investigation | 2000/9999|
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|Persistent Link to Item:||http://vault.fbi.gov/Roy%20Wilkins|