Roger Wilkins is a noted civil rights activist, lawyer, professor, and journalist. He began his career working for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. After which he worked as a lawyer in Ohio. At age 33, he was appointed assistant attorney general during the Lyndon Johnson administration. He left government in 1969 and joined the editorial page staff of The Washington Post. He won a Pulitzer Prize along with Carl Bernstein, Herbert Block, and Bob Woodward for their work exposing the Watergate burglary. He left the The Washington Post in 1974 but continued his journalistic career working for several major news outlets around the country. He was also a Clarence J. Robinson Professor of History and American Culture at George Mason University until his retirement in 2007.