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[Roy Wilkins shaking hands Erik Jonsson, mayor of Dallas, Texas, at Love Field International Airport during trip for speaking engagement at Memorial Auditorium as Rev. H. Rhett James, president of the John F. Kennedy NAACP Branch, looks on]

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  1. African Americans
  2. Civil Rights
  3. Dallas
  4. Jonsson, Erik
  5. National Association For The Advancement Of Colored People
  6. People
  7. Photographic Prints
  8. Shaking Hands
  9. Texas
  10. Travel
  11. Wilkins, Roy

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