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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
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-JRL-01
In this interview Lewis discusses President John F. Kennedy on civil rights; Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] as Attorney General and civil rights; working on RFK’s 1968 presidential campaign; RFK’s assassination, 1968; J. Edgar Hoover and FBI investigations of the civil rights movement; discrimination, hatred, and violence; and the march from Selma to Montgomery and “Bloody Sunday,” 1965, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-JB-01
Bennett discusses the attorneys general under whom he served, Robert F. Kennedy’s Justice Department reforms, and J. Edgar Hoover, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-10-31-A
AR28
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR6372-A
President John F. Kennedy meets with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) J. Edgar Hoover (center) and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (right). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Collection
USDJ
Records 1961-1963. Microfilm copies of material generated by the Department of Justice during the Kennedy administration. Contains a wide variety of legal and administrative paperwork from various offices within the agency. Currently only select records from the Criminal Division and the Civil Rights Division are open for research.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7568-C
President John F. Kennedy (at lectern) addresses the graduating class of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) National Academy. Seated onstage (L-R): Director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover; Attorney General, Robert F. Kennedy; Milbank Professor of Religion at George Washington University, Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo; unidentified. Departmental Auditorium, Washington, D.C.