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. . . first in myth, later in reality, passion and violence watered my root soil.

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Roy Wilkins
Age: 80 †
Born: 1901
Born: August 30
Died: 1981
Died: September 8
Activist
Journalist
St. Louis
Missouri
Roy Ottoway Wilkins
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Violence
Passion
Reality
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