Josephine Mathewson Wilkins (September 30, 1893 – May 30, 1977) was an American social activist, president of the Georgia State League of Women Voters.

[2][3] She attended school at the Lucy Cobb Institute in Athens, and earned a bachelor's degree at the University of Georgia.

"Such an organization takes on new meaning in this period of confusion," she declared in her acceptance speech, "when the tendency to dictatorship is more the rule than the exception, and we in the United States seek to prove that our form of self-government is flexible enough to effect such changes as we may want through the orderly process of the ballot".

[8] Wilkins worked with Governor Ellis Arnall with a grant from the Rosenwald Fund, to create the Georgia Citizens Fact-Finding Movement, an umbrella organization for reform efforts.

She worked on anti-lynching laws with Jessie Daniel Ames,[9] and helped to found and lead the Southern Regional Council in the 1940s.