1997 Roger Wilkins Autographed Signed Hand Written Letter Civil Rights Leader. Leader, professor of history, and. Wilkins worked as a welfare lawyer in. S administration at age 33, one of the highest-ranking blacks ever to serve in the executive branch up to that time. Roger Wilkins was sworn in as Director of Community Relations Service on Friday 4 February 1966 in a ceremony at The White House as per page 2 of President Johnson’s Diary for that day. Leaving government in 1969 at the end of the Johnson administration, he worked briefly for the. Before joining the editorial staff of the. In 1972 for exposing the Watergate scandal that eventually forced President. S resignation from office. In 1974 to work for the. Followed five years later by a brief stay at the now-defunct. In 1980 he became a radio news commentator, work he still does today for. Wilkins was the Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at. Until his retirement in 2007. During his tenure at George Mason, Wilkins was, arguably, one of the most preeminent professors in residence at that time. Wilkins is also the publisher of the. And is the nephew of. A past executive director of the NAACP. The item “1997 Roger Wilkins Autographed Signed Hand Written Letter Civil Rights Leader” is in sale since Friday, June 17, 2016. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Autographs\Historical”. The seller is “zartanthegreat1″ and is located in Woodstock, Georgia. This item can be shipped worldwide.