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The papers of Aaron Henry were deposited with the Labor History Archives in October 1969 and October 1970.
Aaron Henry was born in Coahoma County, Mississippi on July 2, 1922 and attended the public schools there, graduating from high school in 1941. From 1943 to 1946 he was in the armed forces. In 1950, Mr. Henry received his degree in pharmacy from Dillard University in New Orleans. Then he returned to Clarksdale, Mississippi and established the Fourth Street Drugstore, which is now a center in the black community for a variety of programs and drives.
In 1952 Mr. Henry helped to establish and became the first president of the Clarksdale branch of the NAACP. By 1959 he had risen to State President of the Mississippi NAACP. Among the positions held by Mr. Henry have been member of the National Board of the NAACP, Chairman of the Mississippi Voter Registration and Education Project, Chairman of the Democratic State Committee for Mississippi, President of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and Delegate‑at‑Large for that group to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.
In 1963 he ran for Governor in Mississippi, receiving more than 90,000 votes. The citizens of Mississippi declared April 12, 1970 as “Aaron Henry Day”, whereupon Mr. Henry received the NAACP state award for twenty years of dedicated service. On July 2, 1970, he received the “Abraham Lincoln Award” from the National Education Association Center for Human Relations.
Citizens Advisory Committee on Civil Rights
Citizens Crusade Against Poverty
Child Development Group of Mississippi
Commission on Party Structure and Delegate Selection
Delta Ministry
Democratic Convention, 1968
Democratic Politics
Freedom Schools Henry, Aaron Day
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
NAACP National Conference on Black Power
National Sharecroppers Fund
O.E.O. Programs
School Desegregation
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Southern Regional Council, Inc.
Vietnam War
Voting Education Rights and Registration
White House Conference on Civil Rights
Ralph Abernathy
Andrew Carr
John Conyers, Jr.
Gloster Current
Charles Diggs
Charles Evers
Fred Harris
Hubert Humphrey
Edward Kennedy
Robert Kennedy
George McGovern
Edmund Muskie
Richard Nixon
Adam Clayton Powell
Bayard Rustin
Roy Wilkins
Correspondence, Boxes 1-3 and 5-8,
The Correspondence Series is arranged alphabetically. In cases where the bulk of the correspondence from an individual warrants it, a separate folder has been established. In all other cases, letters are filed by the writer’s last name. To Series 1
General Files, Boxes 4 and 9-13,
The General Files Series is arranged alphabetically by topics, group names, etc. This material consists of reports, clippings, pamphlets, notes, and similar items. To Series 2