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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 folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-05-19-B
AR07
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JRL-01
In this interview Lewis discusses President John F. Kennedy on civil rights; Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] as Attorney General and civil rights; working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign; RFK’s assassination, 1968; J. Edgar Hoover and FBI investigations of the civil rights movement; discrimination, hatred, and violence; and the march from Selma to Montgomery and “Bloody Sunday,” 1965, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-PBE-06
Edelman discusses Robert F. Kennedy's (RFK) 1966 trip to Mississippi, New York politics, social legislation including medicaid, social security, and welfare, and Frank O’Connor’s 1966 New York gubernatorial campaign, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JCR-01
Rosenthal discusses working with Robert F. Kennedy in the Justice Department, contributions of the department, and the Civil Rights Movement, among other issues.
Textual folder
Jean Stein Personal Papers
JSTPP-003-004
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-003-007
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6596-C
President John F. Kennedy signs Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Looking on, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); unidentified; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White. Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6596-B
President John F. Kennedy signs Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Looking on, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (Minnesota); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); unidentified; Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy; unidentified; Deputy Attorney General, Byron White. Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6596-A
President John F. Kennedy hands pen to Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy after signing Public Law 87-36, Circuit & District Judges Appointment Act. Others, L-R: Congressman Emanuel Celler (New York); Senator James O. Eastland (Mississippi); Senator Olin Johnston (South Carolina); unidentified; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sam Rayburn (Texas); Deputy Attorney General, Byron White (far right). Also included in the President’s schedule: Assistant Deputy Attorney General, Joseph F. Dolan; William Foley; Joseph Davis. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.