1960s Timeline

May 3, 1963 - The anti-segregation demonstrators in Birmingham, Alabama today appeared to be older than those who marched yesterday —...

May 3, 1963 - Fire hoses and police dogs were used in Birmingham, Alabama today to disperse Negro students protesting racial segregation....

May 3, 1963 - Singing “We Shall Overcome,” five whites and five Negroes who call themselves “Freedom Walkers” continued today the journey...

May 3, 1963 - Malcolm X, controversial national spokesman for the Nation of Islam and minister of Temple No. 7 in Harlem, journeyed to...

May 2, 1963 - Ten “Freedom Walkers” — five whites and five Negroes — engaged in a debate this afternoon with fifteen white teenagers in...

May 2, 1963 - Hundreds of young Negroes, many of them in their teens or younger, demonstrated through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama...

May 1, 1963 - Five white persons and five Negroes completed today the first leg of a four-hundred-mile “Freedom Walk” to Jackson, Miss....

Apr. 29, 1963 - Six whites and six Negroes planned today to leave Chattanooga, Tenn., at dawn Wednesday to finish a slain postman’s...

Apr. 27, 1963 - In Gadsden, Alabama tonight, Etowah County Sheriff Dewey Colvard said first-degree murder charges would be filed against...

Apr. 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, visiting Atlanta on Confederate Memorial Day, praised progress made in Georgia and...

Apr. 25, 1963 - A school desegregation crisis drew nearer today in Alabama despite a conference between Attorney General Robert F....

Apr. 25, 1963 - Fifty state troopers armed with nightsticks, other state policemen in plain clothes, two dozen FBI agents, and a...

Apr. 24, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said tonight that neither politics nor a defiant Governor George C. Wallace would...

Apr. 24, 1963 - In Attalla, Alabama today, state and county authorities began a massive search for the slayer of a white Baltimore...

Apr. 23, 1963 - A 35-year-old Baltimore mailman was shot and killed today while hiking to Mississippi to urge Governor Ross Barnett to...

Apr. 20, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was released from Birmingham City Jail today after posting a $300 cash bond. Dr. King and 30...

Apr. 19, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured today with Lee Hills, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors) said today that...

Apr. 18, 1963 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King talked this afternoon with her husband, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, through a glass...

Apr. 17, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Billy Graham had this advice today for “a good personal friend,” the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.: “Put...

Apr. 15, 1963 - Mrs. Coretta Scott King said today President Kennedy had told her he hoped the change of government in Birmingham might...