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Jun 6, 2022

Harry Belafonte to Test Atlanta Segregation Laws

June 6, 1962 - Harry Belafonte (right), the Negro singer, and a racially mixed group were accepted for registration at an Atlanta motel...

Jun 4, 2022

Rockefeller Touts Civil Rights Record, Challenges Kennedy

June 4, 1962 - Governor Nelson Rockefeller replied today to a Democratic challenge on civil rights and issued one to President Kennedy in...

Jun 3, 2022

TV Networks Clarify Racial Stance in Casting

June 3, 1962 - NBC and ABC reaffirmed today what they called their longstanding policy of nondiscrimination in the use of Negro actors on...

Jun 2, 2022

17-year-old Negro Civil Rights Activist Honored in New York

June 2, 1962 - A 17-year-old Negro girl who spent more than a month in a Mississippi jail and nearly seven months in a reform school for...

May 26, 2022

Leonard Bernstein Walks Out of Segregated Restaurant in Baltimore

May 26, 1962 - Leonard Bernstein (pictured), the conductor, walked out of a Baltimore restaurant yesterday when he was told that a Negro...

May 25, 2022

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Speaks on Civil Rights

May 25, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy received two awards in New York City yesterday. In the afternoon, he was given the...

May 20, 2022

Dr. King Says Segregation Will End In His Lifetime

May 20, 1962 - The Rev. Martin Luther King predicted today that segregation would be wiped out in his lifetime. He also accused President...

May 17, 2022

Dr. King Urges Kennedy to Issue "Second Emancipation Proclamation"

May 17, 1962 - After a luncheon meeting in Washington of Negro leaders and Government officials, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr....

May 16, 2022

Justice Department Files Voting Rights Suit in Georgia

May 16, 1962 - The Federal Government widened the scope of its battle against voter discrimination in the South today by filing its first...

May 11, 2022

Harry Belafonte To Challenge Georgia Segregation Laws

May 11, 1962 - Harry Belafonte, appearing with his revue at a Toronto theatre, said today he planned to take his troupe to Georgia to...

May 5, 2022

Malcolm X Holds Press Conference in Los Angeles

May 5, 1962 - Malcolm X, Minister of Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7 in Harlem, traveled to Los Angeles and held a news conference today...

May 5, 2022

Attorney General Kennedy Urges Emphasis on Civil Rights

May 5, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy urged today that the nation put as much emphasis on the advancement of civil rights at...

May 5, 2022

Black Muslims Clash with Police in Los Angeles

May 5, 1962 - Charges of violence and brutality were exchanged between Los Angeles officials and Negro leaders after the death this week...

May 1, 2022

L.A. Police Chief William H. Parker in War of Words with Malcolm X

May 1, 1962 - Police Chief William H. Parker (pictured left with Mayor Sam Yorty) warned the criminal complaints committee of the Los...

Apr 29, 2022

Martin Luther King Speaks at Princeton

Apr. 29, 1962 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (pictured with Dean Ernest Gordon) called on man today to be “maladjusted” to a...

Apr 28, 2022

Black Muslim Killed in Clash with Los Angeles Police

Apr. 28, 1962 - Members of the Nation of Islam, sometimes referred to as Black Muslims, clashed with the police in Los Angeles last night...

Apr 23, 2022

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Speaks at A.P. Luncheon in New York

Apr. 23, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy called today for more Americans to go abroad to explain the United States’ belief in...

Apr 20, 2022

Pentagon Orders Integration in Reserve Units

Apr. 20, 1962 - The Pentagon has directed that all-Negro and all-white Reserve units be integrated “as rapidly as is consistent with...

Apr 16, 2022

Three Louisiana Segregationists Excommunicated from Roman Catholic Church

Apr. 16, 1962 - Three segregationists have been excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church for attempting to “provoke” opposition to...

Apr 15, 2022

Louis Lomax Criticizes Civil Rights Leaders as Self-Promoters

Apr. 15, 1962 - A Negro leader in the civil rights movement today assailed other Negro leaders in that movement as “primarily interested...