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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-AEH-01
In this interview Henry discusses meeting John F. Kennedy [JFK] and Robert F. Kennedy; discussing Mississippi and civil rights issues with President JFK; voting rights and poll taxes; the freedom rides; the murder of three young activists in Mississippi during the Freedom Summer of 1964; Mississippi politics beginning in the late fifties; white people in Mississippi; school segregation; the 1960 presidential election; and early contact with the federal government and the Justice Department in 1961, among other issues.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1962-06-04-A
AR22, KN17
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-020-001
Textual folder
Burke Marshall Personal Papers
BMPP-019-015
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. President's Office Files.
JFKPOF-097-012
This folder contains materials collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning desegregation, civil unrest, and racially motivated violence at the University of Mississippi. Materials in this folder include newspaper clippings, telegrams to Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett, memoranda concerning student James Meredith and Governor Barnett, transcripts of telephone conversations between President Kennedy and Governor Barnett, transcripts of Associated Press news articles concerning violence and desegregation, press releases regarding unlawful obstructions of justice at the university, a memorandum from Special Assistant to the President Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., and a draft of President Kennedy's statement on desegregation at the University of Mississippi.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-BM-04
Marshall discusses the violence surrounding James Howard Meredith’s enrollment at the University of Mississippi, the contempt of court case against Mississippi governor Ross R. Barnett, and John F. Kennedy’s judicial appointments, among other issues.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22152
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: President of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Cliff Clegg; President of the Cotton Producers Association (CPA), D. W. Brooks (mostly hidden); Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel; Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, L. Y. Ballentine; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture, Doyle E. Conner (mostly hidden on edge of frame). Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C22151
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: President of the Cotton Producers Association (CPA), D. W. Brooks; Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, W. F. Moss (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; and Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7278-D
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: chairman of the International Trade Development Committee, Joseph O. Parker; President of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Cliff Clegg; unidentified (in back); President of the Cotton Producers Association (CPA), D. W. Brooks; Executive Secretary of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Abit Massey (in back, mostly hidden); Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Executive Secretary for the Virginia Poultry Federation, Paul Williams (in back, partially hidden); Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; unidentified (in back); Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, W. F. Moss (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel; Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, L. Y. Ballentine; Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture, Doyle E. Conner; unidentified (in back); Legal Advisor to the Governor of Alabama, Robert P. Bradley; and Assistant Commissioner of the Florida Department Agriculture, Frank W. Risher (partially hidden on edge of frame). Also listed in the President's schedule: Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Dave L. Pearce; Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Parke C. Brinkley; President of Painter's Poultry Company, George L. Painter; and Norman Sanders, of South Carolina. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7278-C
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: chairman of the International Trade Development Committee, Joseph O. Parker; unidentified (in back, mostly hidden); President of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Cliff Clegg; President of the Cotton Producers Association (CPA), D. W. Brooks; Executive Secretary of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Abit Massey (in back); Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Executive Secretary for the Virginia Poultry Federation, Paul Williams (in back); Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; unidentified (in back, partially hidden); Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, W. F. Moss (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel; Commissioner of the North Carolina Department of Agriculture, L. Y. Ballentine; Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture, Doyle E. Conner; unidentified (in back); Legal Advisor to the Governor of Alabama, Robert P. Bradley; and Assistant Commissioner of the Florida Department Agriculture, Frank W. Risher. Also listed in the President's schedule: Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Dave L. Pearce; Commissioner of the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Immigration, Parke C. Brinkley; President of Painter's Poultry Company, George L. Painter; and Norman Sanders, of South Carolina. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7278-B
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Executive Secretary for the Virginia Poultry Federation, Paul Williams (in back); Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; unidentified (in back); Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, W. F. Moss (in back, mostly hidden); President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; and Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.
Photograph
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-AR7278-A
President John F. Kennedy attends poultry tariff meeting. Left to right: President of the Cotton Producers Association (CPA), D. W. Brooks; Executive Secretary of the Georgia Poultry Federation, Abit Massey (in back, partially hidden); Governor of Mississippi, Ross Barnett; Executive Secretary for the Virginia Poultry Federation, Paul Williams (in back); Governor of Georgia, S. Ernest Vandiver; unidentified (in back); Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Agriculture, W. F. Moss (in back, partially hidden); President Kennedy; Governor of Maryland, J. Millard Tawes; and Governor of Delaware, Elbert N. Carvel. Oval Office, White House, Washington, D.C.