Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker
Title:
Oral history transcript, Aaron E. Henry, interview 1 (I), 9/12/1970, by T.H. Baker
Number of Pages:
62
Description:
Biographical information; murder of civil rights worker Andy Goodman in Mississippi; SCLC; James Meredith enrolls at Ole Miss in 1962; assassination of Medgar Evers in 1963; funeral of MLK; JFK’s assassination; LBJ as President; Civil Rights Act of 1964; Voting Rights Act of 1965; work on minimum wage; the Neshoba County deaths; Council of Federated Organizations movement; FBI opens new office in Mississippi; RFK, Hoover and LBJ told FBI to get on the job in Mississippi; Freedom Democratic Party Movement; NAACP, SNCC, CORP volunteers in Mississippi to help several Congressmen from Mississippi; two Senators on the Democratic side voted down every project for change; Henry campaigned for LBJ in 1964; White House Conference on Civil Rights; Black Power; James Meredith march; Meredith shot inside Mississippi; MLK and Carmichael join march; SCLC 1968; MLK’s death; food stamps; Henry disagreed with Agriculture Department on distribution of food stamps; extension service; REA and FHA; outstanding white leaders in Civil Rights: Hodding Carter III, Bill Reedy, Claude Ramsey, Father Phillips McCloone and Father William Morrissey; SCLC base in Alabama; opinion of Kennedy men; LBJ’s administration involved in voting rights, public accommodation and fair housing
