“Delta Epiphany with Ellen Meacham” Program
Object number2018.001.0070
Date06/18/2018
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interviewer
Ellen Meacham
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.mov file)
DimensionsDuration: 54 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped "Delta Epiphany" public program with Ellen Meacham. A longtime journalist and professor of journalism at the University of Mississippi, Meacham is the author of Delta Epiphany: Robert Kennedy in Mississippi (2018).
Program conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on June 18, 2018. The prorgam is fifty-four minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryPrior to this public program, Ms. Meacham recorded an oral history with the Museum. It may be viewed in full here: https://emuseum.jfk.org/objects/58820. - 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
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