Aaron Henry was an American civil rights leader, politician, and head of the Mississippi branch of the NAACP. He was one of the founders of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which tried to sea
Freedom Vote broadside, 1963
Henry reads from a document while seated before the credentials committee of the 1964 Democratic National Convention, August 22, 1964
Button from Henry's time in the Mississippi State Legislature.
The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, also referred to simply as the Freedom Democratic Party, was an American political party that existed in the state of Mississippi from 1964 to 1968 during the
Fannie Lou Hamer, mid-speech to the credentials committee