What is Roger Wilkins?
[[File:Roger Wilkins.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Wilkins in 2011]] '''Roger Wilkins''' (March 25, 1932 – March 26, 2017) was an [[African-American]] [[civil rights]] leader, professor of history, and [[journalist]]. He was a journalist for ''[[The Crisis]]'' and for a short time wrote for ''[[The Washington Post]]''. Between 1966 and 1969, Wilkins served as the [[United States Assistant Attorney General]] during the [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] presidency. He was a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. He was a history professor at [[George Mason University]]. In the 1990s, Wilkins was an anti-[[apartheid]] activist and strong supporter of [[Nelson Mandela]]. He protested many times for Mandela's release in [[South Africa]] during that time period. Wilkins was a political writer and was known for writing ''[[Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism]]'' (2001). Wilkins was born in [[Kansas City, Missouri|Kansas City]], [[Missouri]]. He was raised in [[Grand Rapids, Michigan|Grand Rapids]], [[Michigan]]. He studied at the [[University of Michigan]]. He was married to Patricia King until his death. They lived in [[Washington, D.C.]]. Wilkins died on March 26, 2017 in [[Kensington, Maryland|Kensington]], [[Maryland]] from complications of [[dementia]], aged 85.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/27/us/roger-wilkins-died-civil-rights-advocate.html|title=Roger Wilkins, Champion of Civil Rights, Dies at 85|date=March 27, 2017|work=The New York Times|access-date=March 27, 2017}}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== *{{C-SPAN|Roger Wilkins}} *[http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/164859-1/Roger+Wilkins.aspx ''Booknotes'' interview with Wilkins on ''Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism'', August 12, 2001.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160612115518/http://www.booknotes.org/Watch/164859-1/Roger+Wilkins.aspx |date=June 12, 2016 }} {{DEFAULTSORT:Wilkins, Roger}} [[Category:1932 births