
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, January 13, 1994                   TAG: 9401130161
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C3   EDITION: METRO 
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ROANOKE CIVIL RIGHTS ADVOCATE WILL BE HONORED AT BANQUET

The Rev. R.R. Wilkinson, the late Roanoke civil rights leader, will be honored at a Saturday night banquet by Concerned Citizens for Justice U.S.A., a local civil rights organization.

His widow will receive the group's Martin Luther King Award honoring Wilkinson's work to desegregate Roanoke schools, restaurants, theaters and hospitals. Wilkinson, president of the Roanoke NAACP in the 1960s and longtime pastor of Hill Street Baptist Church, died in June.

Perneller Chubb-Wilson, Concerned Citizens' president, said that when Wilkinson learned last year he would receive the King award, he was especially pleased because he once walked with King on a civil rights march.

Others receiving awards Saturday will include Legal Aid lawyer Henry Woodward, lawyer Onzlee Ware, community activist Henry Craighead and Ray "Butch" Lewis, a Police Department resource officer at Patrick Henry High School.

Speaker at the 7 p.m. banquet at the Airport Sheraton will be the Rev. William Keen of Danville, a Virginia official of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Tickets are $20. For information, call 344-7064.

by CNB