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What made Roy Ottoway Wilkins famous?

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Criticized as too conservative and unwilling to shift the NAACP's focus from legal challenges and political lobbying to the nonviolent direct-action tactics of Dr. martin luther king jr. and black power groups, Wilkins worked with Congress and Presidents john f. kennedy and lyndon b. johnson to secure legislation that changed the status quo on racial inequality.

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