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Henry, Aaron, 1922-

Biography:

Mississippi-based African American civil rights activist, Henry helped to establish and became the first president of the Clarksdale branch of the NAACP. In 1959, he became president of Mississippi NAACP. He served as a member of the National Board of the NAACP, chairman of the Mississippi Voter Registration and Education Project, chairman of the Democratic State Committee for Mississippi, president of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, and delegate‑at‑Large for that group to the 1964 Democratic National Convention. He ran for the governor of Mississippi in 1963.

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Archival Collections and Reference Resources

• Asa and Elna Spaulding papers, 1909-1997 and undated, bulk 1935-1983 (Duke University Libraries)
  • Box AV-4, Folder 4: OR29. Sound Truck--Inspiration for Voters, undated (Audiovisual materials)
• The Civil Rights Era in the U.S. News & World Report Photographs Collection: Selected Images from the Collections of the Library of Congress (Library of Congress)
• Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • COFO : what it is : what it does; [n.d.] (Reports)
  • Evening picnic, Summer 1964 (1) (Color photographs)
  • Evening picnic, Summer 1964 (2) (Color photographs)
  • Freedom Summer pocket journal; 1964 (Text)
  • It was a cool day in August"; August 1964 (Reports)
  • Letter, Matthew Zwerling to Israel and Florence Zwerling; July 12, 1964 (Text)
  • Letter, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to all friends of the MFDP; [n.d.] (Text)
  • Letter, William F. Ryan to Dr. and Mrs. Israel Zwerling; July 13, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Letter, Zoya Zeman to Erwin D. Zeman; July 3, 1964 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Memo, Aaron Henry, Bob Moses and Dave Dennis to Roy Wilkins, et al.; April 28, 1964 (Text)
  • Memo, Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party to friends; [n.d.] (Text)
  • Message from Mississippi; 1965 (Image; Text)
  • Mississippi freedom ballot; November 2-4, 1963 (Image; Text)
  • Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party congressional challenge fact sheet; [n.d.] (Text)
  • News release, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee; December 10, 1964 (Text)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry and reporter at FDP convention (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry; circa 1980s (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry, police officer and unidentified man (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry's backyard (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry's drugstore (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Aaron Henry's drugstore (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of local teens in Aaron Henry's backyard (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of Mat Zwerling and Margie Hazelton (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Photograph of MFDP convention (Black-and-white photographs)
  • Position paper (Text)
  • Primer for delegates to the Democratic National Convention; [n.d.] (Image; Text)
  • Proposed program for Mississippi in relationship to SCLC's Washington Poor People's Campaign; January 14, 1968 (Reports)
  • Reports : the challenge, Vol. 1, no. 4; [1965] (Image; Text)
  • Student voice, Vol. 4, no. 4 (Image; Text)
  • Student voice, Vol. 5, no. 22; 23 September 1964 (Image; Text)
  • Student voice, Vol. 5 no. 23 (Newsletters)
• Moncrief photograph collection (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
• Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement (Documenting the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill))
  • Oral history interview with Aaron Henry, April 2, 1974 (Transcripts)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Aaron Henry (Memorandums)
  • Charles Evers (Articles)
• Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
  • Letter: to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shomer, Chicago, Illinois, 1962 March 3 (Letters (correspondence))
  • Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph taken from a newspaper of Aaron Henry, Clarksdale, Mississippi, 1950s (Black-and-white photographs)
• USM Oral History (University of Southern Mississippi Libraries)
  • Oral history with Dr. Aaron Henry, prominent civil rights worker (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Jan Handke (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Bennie Gooden (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Mr. Wilson Evans II (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with Ms. Vernon J. Keys (Oral histories)
  • Oral history with Reverend Sammie Rash (Transcripts)
  • Oral history with the Honorable Harvey Ross (Transcripts)