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About Oral History
Digital Identifier
JFKOH-AEH-02
Interviewee(s)
Henry, Aaron E. (Aaron Edd), 1922-1997
Biographical Note
(1922 - 1997) Civil rights activist; Executive Committee, Mississippi Democratic Party; President, Mississippi State Conference, NAACP (1953-1993); Council of Federated Organizations (1961); Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party (1964); Mississippi House of Representatives (1982-1996)
Interviewer(s)
Dennis J. O'Brien
Access Restriction Status
Open
Use Restriction Status
None
Description
In this interview Henry discusses how he first got involved in civil rights activity and how he became an active leader in the NAACP; contact with the Justice Department during the Dwight D. Eisenhower Administration; the FBI investigation into Henry and into the civil rights movement; Henry’s relationship with Medgar Evers; voting rights and voter registration campaigns; beatings and killings of activists in Mississippi; the NAACP and the 1960 presidential election; Jim Silver; Martin Luther King and other civil rights leaders; labor movement leadership and the NAACP in the sixties; the relationships among the various civil rights organizations, including the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, SCLC, and SNCC; organizing boycotts of certain stores; Henry’s arrest in 1961; and the disappearance and murder of Andrew Goodman, Mickey Schwerner, and James Chaney in 1964, among other issues.
Date(s) of Materials
13 May 1969
Deed Status
Rights Transferred Upon Death of Donor
Copyright Status
Retained by Donor
Collection
Series
Series 1. John F. Kennedy Oral History Interviews, 1964-2012.
Preferred Citation
Aaron E. Henry, recorded interview by Dennis J. O'Brien, May 13, 1969, (page number), John F. Kennedy Library Oral History Program.
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Accession Number
OH 1990-026
Transcript
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