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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.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-WS-04
Sheridan discusses his work with Robert F. Kennedy on the McClellan Committee, including the committee staff, investigations of Jimmy Hoffa and the Teamster’s Union, and the political implications of the committee’s investigations.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-WS-03
Sheridan discusses the 1960 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania, his work in Robert F. Kennedy's Justice Department, and his earlier work investigating the Teamsters Union as an staff member of the McClellan Committee.