Innis, Roy, 1934-2017
URI(s)
Fuller Name
- Roy Emile Alfredo
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1934-06-06
Death Date
- 2017-01-08
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1963
- Affiliation End: 2017
- Organization: Congress of Racial Equality
Birth Place
- Saint Croix (United States Virgin Islands)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
Occupation
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Sources
- found: CBS News special report. Issue of busing [MP] 1972:participants (Roy Innis, head of CORE)
- found: WW in Am., 1980-81(Innis, Roy Emile Alfredo; b. 1934; organization official, CORE)
- found: NUCMC data from Amer. Jewish Archives for Roy Innis correspondence, 1985(Roy Innis; national chairman of The Congress of Racial Equality)
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Jan. 11, 2017(in obituary published Jan. 10: Roy Innis; Roy Emile Alfredo Innis; b. June 6, 1934, St. Croix, United States Virgin Islands; d. Sunday [Jan. 8, 2017], Manhattan, aged 82; autocratic national leader of the Congress of Racial Equality since 1968, whose right-wing views on affirmative action, law enforcement, desegregation, and other issues put him at odds with many black Americans and other civil rights leaders; joined the Harlem chapter of CORE in 1963; led CORE through changes that mirrored his own evolution from black-power militancy in the 1960s to staunch conservatism resembling a modern Republican political platform)
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Change Notes
- 1986-08-14: new
- 2017-01-11: revised
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