Roy Wilkins, the second Executive Director of the NAACP, was born in St. Louis, in 1901. He was a prominent civil rights activist in the United States from the 1930s to the 1970s. Wilkins was active in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and between 1931 and 1934 was assistant NAACP secretary under Walter Francis White.&#x27; (photo: Roy Wilkins) - CARTER Magazine