- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Aaron Henry, April 2, 1974
- Creator:
- Henry, Aaron, 1922-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bass, Jack
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1974-04-02
- Subject:
- Civil rights--Mississippi
Mississippi--Politics and government
Mississippi--Race relations
School integration--Mississippi
Republican Party (Miss.)
African American politicians--Mississippi
Democratic Party (Miss.)
Mississippi--Race relations--Political aspects
African Americans--Mississippi--Politics and government
Racism--Political aspects--Mississippi
African Americans--Mississippi--Interviews - People:
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994
Thurmond, Strom, 1902-2003
Henry, Aaron, 1922-1997 - Location:
- United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Aaron Henry, an officeholder in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the chairman of the Mississippi Democratic Party, shares his thoughts and recollections on the intersection of race and politics in his home state. Despite racially motivated violence, Henry is determined to use his education and political skills to advance the interest of black Mississippians, a group under assault by racist white politicians committed to reversing the gains of the civil rights movement. This interview will be useful for researchers interested in the insidious role of race in 1970s Mississippi politics.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/A-0107/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Duration: 01:28:07
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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