Ellen Meacham Oral History

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Ellen Meacham Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ellen Meacham. A longtime journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, Meacham is the author of Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi (2018). Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 18, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Ellen Meacham Oral History

Date:

06/18/2018

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 49 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0069

Curatorial Note:

The same day this oral history was recorded Ms. Meacham participated in a public program at the Museum. It may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: Delta Epiphany: RFK In Mississippi - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Sen. Robert Kennedy's visit to Mississippi in April 1967 had a profound impact on his vision for America. A few months later, in August 1967, Kennedy asked activist and civil rights lawyer Marian Wright Edelman to encourage Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "to bring the poor people to Washington to make hunger and poverty visible since the country's attention had turned to the Vietnam War and put poverty and hunger on the back burner." According to Edelman, King responded enthusiastically and began planning what became the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Ellen Meacham Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Ellen Meacham. A longtime journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, Meacham is the author of Delta Epiphany: Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi (2018). Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 18, 2018 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Ellen Meacham Oral History

Date:

06/18/2018

Terms:

Oral histories

Author

Civil rights

Kennedy, Robert F.

Mississippi

Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 49 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0069

Curatorial Note:

The same day this oral history was recorded Ms. Meacham participated in a public program at the Museum. It may be viewed in full on the Museum's YouTube channel: Delta Epiphany: RFK In Mississippi - YouTube. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Sen. Robert Kennedy's visit to Mississippi in April 1967 had a profound impact on his vision for America. A few months later, in August 1967, Kennedy asked activist and civil rights lawyer Marian Wright Edelman to encourage Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "to bring the poor people to Washington to make hunger and poverty visible since the country's attention had turned to the Vietnam War and put poverty and hunger on the back burner." According to Edelman, King responded enthusiastically and began planning what became the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator