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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.
Photograph folder
White House Photographs
JFKWHP-1961-10-11-F
ST05
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-NEH-02
In this interview Halaby discusses different civil rights issues throughout John F. Kennedy’s [JFK] Administration, including the process of and problems with desegregating airport terminals in accordance with Boynton v. Virginia (1960); the 1961 hijacking of a plane, referred to as the El Paso incident; constructing and dedicating the new John Foster Dulles Airport; federal transportation policy; different White House staff members and procedures; and running the Federal Aviation Administration, including problems with certain political figures, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-RFK-04
In this interview Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] discusses American aid to Argentina; American, British, and French involvement in Africa; the 1962 executive order about segregation in federally-funded housing; appointing African-American judges; changes John F. Kennedy [JFK] was contemplating in the Alliance for Progress; the Dominican crisis; the wheat sale to the Soviet Union; the Bobby Baker case; preparing for JFK’s 1964 campaign; RFK’s return to work after JFK’s assassination and disagreements among the Cabinet members and under President Lyndon B. Johnson; changes in White House staff and the Democratic Party; RFK’s political plans for after 1964; and JFK’s opinions of his staff and appointees, among other issues.
Oral history
Robert F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
RFKOH-RC-04
Clark discusses the New York federal judgeship appointments, the Lands division study of federal policy on public lands, and the 1963 White House meeting on federal land ownership, among other issues.
Oral history
John F. Kennedy Oral History Collection
JFKOH-APR-01
This interview focuses on the James M. Landis Report, Commission appointments and the Kennedy Administration, and relationships between agencies, among other topics.
Textual folder
Papers of John F. Kennedy. Presidential Papers. White House Staff Files of Lee C. White
JFKWHSFLCW-018-015
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19059
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with food display and floral arrangement. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19058
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with food display and floral arrangement. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19057
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19056
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Green Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19055
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Unidentified painting on wall. Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19054
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Green Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19053
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Portrait of Commodore John Barry, painted by Gilbert Stuart, on wall. Cross Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19052
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Floral arrangement in vase on pedestal. East Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19051
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19050
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Floral arrangement in blue vase on pedestal. Blue Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19049
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with food display and floral arrangement. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19048
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with floral arrangement. Portrait of General John Stark, painted by Samuel F.B. Morse, on wall. Cross Hall, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19047-A
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with candles, food display, and floral arrangements. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19047
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Table with candles, food display, and floral arrangements. State Dining Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19044
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Tables with floral arrangements. Green Room, White House, Washington, D.C.
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White House Photographs
JFKWHP-KN-C19043
White House reception for Judicial Branch. Red Room, White House, Washington, D.C.