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Mar 15

MLK Predicts More Demonstrations

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

Dec 29, 2023

Time Magazine Names Dr. Martin Luther King Man of the Year

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, 2023

President Johnson Meets with Dr. King

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, 2023

President Johnson Reinforces Commitment to Predecessor’s Civil Rights Program

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

Nov 19, 2023

Eisenhower Speaks at Gettysburg

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

Nov 10, 2023

Negroes Appearing More on Television

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

Nov 5, 2023

Staunch Segregationist Elected to Replace Governor Barnett in Mississippi

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

Nov 5, 2023

Auburn University Ordered to Admit Negro Student

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, 2023

Dr. Bunche Criticizes Racists — Black and White

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, 2023

Dr. King Threatens More Birmingham Demonstrations

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

Oct 7, 2023

Alabama State Troopers Rough Up Negroes Attempting to Register to Vote

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

Aug 31, 2023

MLK: We Must Double Negro Vote

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, 2023

Dr. King Shines at Washington March

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, 2023

🚨Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate for Civil Rights in D.C.

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, 2023

NYPD Chooses First Negro to Study at FBI National Academy

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, 2023

James Hood Withdraws from University of Alabama

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

Aug 1, 2023

President Kennedy Comments on Civil Rights Demonstrations

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

Jul 26, 2023

MLK: Civil Rights Movement Employs No Communists

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

Jul 25, 2023

JFK: No Evidence MLK Is Communist or Communist-Controlled

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

Jul 15, 2023

Wallace Attacks Kennedy Civil Rights Program

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