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)
- Citizens' Council Collection (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- Civil Rights Archive (John Davis Williams Library (University of Mississippi))
- 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)
- 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))
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)