Oral history interview with Aaron Henry, April 2, 1974
Subtitle: interview A-0107, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Bass, Jack, interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Civil rights; Politics and government; Race relations; Political aspects; School integration; African American politicians; African Americans; Racism; Republican Party (Miss.); Democratic Party (Miss.)
Other titles: Interview A-0107, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Aaron Henry, April 2, 1974; Oral histories of the American South.
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 is a useful interview for researchers interested in the insidious role of race in 1970s Mississippi politics.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on May 30, 2007).

Interview participants: Aaron Henry, interviewee; Jack Bass, interviewer.

Duration: 01:28:07.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

Text encoded by Mike Millner.  Sound recordings digitized by Steve Weiss and Aaron Smithers.

Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 129.4 kilobytes, 188.3 megabytes.

Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series A, Southern politics, interview A-0107, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Linda Killen. Original transcript: 33 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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