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May 3, 2023

MLK on Birmingham Demonstrations: “We Are Ready to Negotiate”

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

May 3, 2023

🚨Violence Erupts at Birmingham Demonstration

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

May 3, 2023

“Freedom Walkers” Continue Journey Amidst Hostility in Deep South

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

May 3, 2023

Malcolm X Observes Black Muslim Trial in L.A., Photographs Policeman

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, 2023

“Freedom Walkers” Debate Teenagers in Georgia

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

May 2, 2023

Hundreds Demonstrate in Birmingham

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

May 1, 2023

Demonstrators Attempting to Complete “Freedom Walk” to Jackson, Miss.

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, 2023

12 Whites and Negroes Will Continue Slain Mailman’s “Freedom Walk”

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, 2023

Murder Charges Filed in Slaying of Baltimore Mailman

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

Apr 26, 2023

Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy Visits Atlanta

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

Apr 25, 2023

New School Desegregation Crisis Approaching in Alabama

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

Apr 25, 2023

Attorney General Kennedy Guarded Closely in Alabama

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

Apr 24, 2023

Robert F. Kennedy Prepares for Alabama Visit

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

Apr 24, 2023

Search Is On for Slayer of Baltimore Mailman

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

Apr 23, 2023

Baltimore Mailman, Marching for Civil Rights, Killed in Alabama Ambush

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, 2023

Dr. King Released from Jail

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, 2023

JFK: I Don’t Have Power to Defund Mississippi

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

Apr 18, 2023

Mrs. King Visits Dr. King in Jail

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

Apr 17, 2023

Rev. Graham to Rev. King: “Put Brakes On”

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, 2023

President Kennedy Telephones Dr. King’s Wife, Coretta Scott King

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