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...last week, when the granddaddy of all civil rights organizations met in Atlanta for its 89th annual convention, it was in its best shape since Roy Wilkins stepped down as executive director in the late 1970s. There's a surplus of $2 million. Membership has stabilized at 400,000. A bevy of impressive talents like youth director Jamal Bryant has joined the staff. And the N.A.A.C.P. has recovered the impatient, insistent but always dignified voice that made it the most important force in the fight against segregation. As the new chairman of the board, Julian Bond, 58, declared...
...DIED. ROY ROGERS, 86, iconic singing cowboy who wore a white hat in more than 90 westerns. Rogers was an uncomplicated hero and one of the most beloved public figures in the decades following World War II. A canny businessman, he also founded the chain of Roy Rogers fast-food outlets. (See EULOGY, below...
...first time I met with ROY ROGERS was in 1987 at his museum in Victorville, Calif. As the door of our bus opened, there he stood, looking as though he'd just stepped out of one of his old westerns. Very much in awe of this man whom I grew up watching and tried to emulate at times, the only thing I could think to say was, "Ahh, nice to meet you." But Roy was the kind of man who was easy to know and easier to like, so after about two minutes, I was asking questions...
...spent time and worked with Roy many times after that. Once, when Roy was a guest in our Nashville home, he came with me to the Grand Ole Opry. I was playing on Roy Acuff's spot, and after a song, I said, "Mr. Acuff, you don't know what's about to happen, but I'm going to introduce someone--Mr. Roy Rogers." The audience stood for a minute and a half. The chill factor was high. Everyone I've met who knew this man has spoken only words of praise. I think who he was, offscreen as well...
...Children and adults alike bought Roy Rogers -- born Leonard Slye, of American Indian extraction, ironically -- as a Hollywood cowboy for two decades, and as a traveling icon of museums and rodeos for years after that. They came to see that palomino Trigger, famously stuffed after the horse's death in 1965 because Rogers "just didn't have the heart to put him in the ground." (Bullet received no such honor.) And to this day they eat at the restaurant chain that bears his name. Why did Roy Rogers endure? Probably because he always stayed clean. He married frequent costar Dale...