Aaron Henry’s Death – Cause and Date

Aaron Henry Death Cause and Date

Death Date May 19, 1997

Age of Death 74 years

Cause of Death N/A

Profession Civil Rights Leader

The civil rights leader Aaron Henry died at the age of 74. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Remembered for his Mississippi-chapter leadership of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), this civil rights activist also founded the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and later served in the Mississippi House of Representatives.

He was born in Dublin, Mississippi to sharecroppers Mattie and Ed Henry. He later married a woman, but also carried on a same-sex relationship with a man named Gullum Erwin.