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- Title
- Catholic college honors Roy Wilkins.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: C-31751 CATHOLIC COLLEGE HONORS ROY WILKINS PURCHASE, N.Y. -- Roy Wilkins, NAACP’s executive secretary, receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Mother E.M. O’Byrne, president of Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart, Purchase, N.Y. The Negro leader was cited for his “high ability, strong patience and unconquerable hope.” It was noted that Mr. Wilkins has “consistently stressed educational opportunity, civic responsibility, civil liberty, and redress of grievances through the law courts of the U.S.A.” In his acceptance address, Dr. Wilkins lauded the response of youths and students to such service projects as the Peace Corps and the Mississippi summer voter registration drive and their growing recognition of the civil rights struggle as a moral issue. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (M-10E-64-NAB)
- Creator Name(s)
- Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart. (publisher)
- Date Created
- 1964, October 20, 1964, October 20, 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Wilkins, Roy, 1901-1981., Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart., Manhattanville College of the Sacred Heart--Faculty., O'Byrne, E. M. (Eleanor M.), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Nuns--New York (State)--Purchase., Commencement ceremonies--New York (State)--Purchase., Degrees, Academic--New York (State)--Purchase., Civil rights movements--United States., Civil rights workers--New York (State)--Purchase., African American civil rights workers--New York (State)--Purchase.
- Geographic subjects
- New York (State), Purchase., New York (State), Purchase., New York (State), Purchase., United States., New York (State), Purchase., New York (State), Purchase., Purchase (N.Y.), North and Central America--United States--New York--Westchester--Harrison
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, image no. C-31751; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_C-31751
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:356540