1960s Timeline

May 11, 1963 - The state of California has completed a 9-day presentation of its case against 14 Black Muslims indicted for participating...

May 10, 1963 - Malcolm X, national spokesman of the Black Muslim movement, denounced today the use of Negro children in the Birmingham...

May 10, 1963 - Justice Department officials hailed the settlement of the Birmingham racial dispute as “a tremendous step forward for...

May 9, 1963 - In Birmingham, Alabama tonight, negotiators reached full agreement on terms for settling that city’s racial crisis after...

May 9, 1963 - Malcolm X arrived in Washington, D.C., today to take over leadership of the Black Muslim movement in the capital, where...

May 9, 1963 - White business and civic leaders who have been negotiating with Negro leaders in Birmingham, Alabama to resolve racial...

May 8, 1963 - White and Negro negotiators reached a tentative agreement today on most major issues in the racial crisis in Birmingham,...

May 8, 1963 - The Project Friendship experiment in Knoxville, Tenn., has turned out “very well,” one of its leaders reported today. Dr....

May 8, 1963 - President Kennedy said today that business leaders in Birmingham, Ala., had pledged “substantial steps” to begin to meet...

May 7, 1963 - Former Brooklyn Dodger baseball star Jackie Robinson (left with Floyd Patterson) said today he will lead anti-segregation...

May 7, 1963 - Police and firemen in Birmingham, Alabama, under the direction of Commissioner Eugene (Bull) Connor (pictured), drove...

May 7, 1963 - Birmingham’s city jail was so jammed with Negro demonstrators today it took more than four hours to serve breakfast — grits...

May 6, 1963 - About 1,000 Negroes were arrested today in Birmingham, Ala., as wave after wave of marchers chanted challenges to...

May 5, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. said today that Negro demonstrations in Birmingham had dramatized to the world the racial...

May 5, 1963 - The Justice Department sent two high officials to Birmingham, Alabama today in an attempt to bring about a truce in the...

May 5, 1963 - Governor George Wallace of Alabama said today that most residents of Birmingham were “fed up” with racial demonstrations....

May 4, 1963 - At a White House meeting today, President Kennedy described the situation for Negroes in Birmingham as "intolerable." As ...

May 4, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy warned last night that refusal to grant equal rights to Negroes in Birmingham, Alabama...

May 3, 1963 - Alabama highway patrolmen wielding electrical prod poles arrested 10 “freedom walkers” today. A crowd of 1,500 whites...

May 3, 1963 - Albert Boutwell (left with Governor George Wallace), the newly elected mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, praised the white...