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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated July 8, 1960 reads, "Roy Wilkins, NAACP executive secretary, at today's Democratic platform hearings accused elements in Southern states of conspiring to disenfranchise Negroes in states outside the South."
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Wilkins, Roy,--1901-1981 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Millennium Biltmore Hotel (Los Angeles, Calif.) Democratic National Convention--(1960 :--Los Angeles, Calif.) Political conventions--United States Political parties--United States Public speaking Microphones Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.) Portrait photographs Valley Times Collection photographs
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