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Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-AEH-02
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.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18355
President John F. Kennedy meets with representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). President Kennedy (seated in rocking chair); Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors (standing right, back to camera). Standing, rear (L – R): Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary; Calvin Luper, Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council President; Edward Turner, President of Detroit NAACP branch; Rev. W.J. Hodge; Dr. S.Y. Nixson; C.R. Darden, President of Mississippi NAACP State Conference branches; Kelly M. Alexander, member of NAACP Board of Directors; Kivie Kaplan, Chairman of NAACP Life Membership Committee; others unidentified (some partially hidden). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-18354
President John F. Kennedy meets with representatives from the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). President Kennedy (seated in rocking chair); Bishop Stephen G. Spottswood, Chairman of the NAACP Board of Directors (standing right, back to camera). Standing, rear (L – R): Medgar Evers, Mississippi NAACP Field Secretary; Calvin Luper, Oklahoma City NAACP Youth Council President; Edward Turner, President of Detroit NAACP branch; Jack E. Tanner, Northwest Area Conference NAACP President; unidentified man; Rev. W.J. Hodge; Dr. S.Y. Nixson; C.R. Darden, President of Mississippi NAACP State Conference branches; Kelly M. Alexander, member of NAACP Board of Directors; two unidentified men (partially hidden, at back); Kivie Kaplan, Chairman of NAACP Life Membership Committee; others unidentified. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.