1960s Timeline

Mar. 15, 1964 - Dr. Martin Luther King predicted yesterday there would be enormous civil rights demonstrations throughout the country in...

Dec. 29, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader who became a symbol of the Negro revolution in 1963, has been...

Dec. 3, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King spent 50 minutes at the White House today with President Johnson and said upon leaving:...

Dec. 2, 1963 - President Johnson reinforced today his commitment to President Kennedy’s civil rights program. After meeting with...

Nov. 19, 1963 - The national cemetery dedicated in Gettysburg, Pa., 100 years ago by Abraham Lincoln was rededicated today by former...

Nov. 10, 1963 - The vigorous campaign to put more Negroes in front of television cameras has produced impressive results in recent...

Nov. 5, 1963 - Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson Jr. (pictured), who has pledged to continue Governor Ross Barnett’s massive resistance to...

Nov. 5, 1963 - A Federal judge ordered Auburn University today to admit its first Negro student in January and to accept students in the...

Oct. 23, 1963 - Dr. Ralph Bunche (pictured at the March on Washington in August), U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs, was...

Oct. 14, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, bitterly denouncing Birmingham’s rejection of his desegregation demands, threatened tonight to...

Oct. 7, 1963 - Alabama state troopers and local officers in Selma, shouting and waving nightsticks, roughed up two Negroes and two news...

Aug. 31, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured left on Wednesday) said today that the leaders of the civil rights movement would now...

Aug. 28, 1963 - At today’s massive march on Washington, there was one man who touched and ignited the vast multitude most deeply: the...

Aug. 28, 1963 - More than 200,000 Americans, most of them Negroes but many of them white, demonstrated in Washington, D.C. today for a...

Aug. 14, 1963 - The New York Police Department has chosen Lieutenant Lloyd Sealy (center in 1959) as the first Negro on the New York...

Aug. 11, 1963 - James Hood (left), a Negro student facing imminent expulsion from the University of Alabama for having criticized its...

Aug. 1, 1963 - President Kennedy welcomed today an apparent slackening in Negro demonstrations in some areas. However, he warned that the...

July 26, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King said today a 39-year-old Negro linked by Congressional committees to the Communist movement had...

July 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Justice Department had no evidence that Dr. Martin Luther King and...

July 15, 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace challenged the Kennedy Administration today to submit its civil rights legislation to a...