1960s Timeline

June 20, 1963 - The family of the slain integration leader, Medgar Evers, met President Kennedy at the White House today. Secretary of...

June 15, 1963 - Southern politicians were accused in Jackson, Miss., today of responsibility in the death of Medgar Evers, a Negro...

June 12, 1963 - President Kennedy, “appalled by the barbarity” of the assassination of a top NAACP integration leader in Jackson, Miss....

June 12, 1963 - Medgar Evers, a native of Decatur, Miss., and an Army veteran of World War II who was murdered this morning, left a mass...

June 12, 1963 - A sniper lying in ambush shot and fatally wounded a Negro civil rights leader in Jackson, Mississippi early today. The...

Jan. 1, 1962 - President Kennedy hailed Roy Wilkins (pictured center in 1959 with Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall) of the...