/internal/media/dispatcher/72378/fullEllen Meacham Oral History06/18/2018Duration: 49 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2018.001.00690Videotaped 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 in Dallas, TX on June 18, 2018 by Curator Stephen Fagin. The interview is 49 minutes long.Oral Histories656620E-100E-1058820Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.Oral historiesAuthorCivil rightsKennedy, Robert F.MississippiAuthors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)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