1960s Timeline

Apr. 15, 1963 - In Birmingham, Alabama today, Mayor Albert Boutwell and the new City Council were sworn in. They pledged to give...

Apr. 14, 1963 - Negroes protesting the arrest of leaders of an attempted march in Birmingham, Alabama hurled rocks at policemen today....

Apr. 13, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy were urged in telegrams today to act immediately “to end the...

Apr. 13, 1963 - Negroes continued to demonstrate against segregation in Birmingham, Alabama today despite the jailing yesterday of...

Apr. 12, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested in Birmingham, Alabama this afternoon when he defied a court injunction...

Apr. 11, 1963 - In Birmingham, Alabama today, Negroes defied a County Court injunction and continued demonstrations against segregation....

Apr. 9, 1963 - Al Hibbler (far left), the Mississippi-born blind Negro singer, was arrested today after joining Negro-led demonstrations...

Apr. 9, 1963 - Four U.S. Senators from the South declined to enter a television discussion with actor Marlon Brando on the subject of...

Apr. 7, 1963 - An attempted peaceful prayer march on City Hall in Birmingham, Alabama developed into violence this afternoon. When police...

Apr. 6, 1963 - Thirty-two Negro marchers were arrested today in Birmingham, Ala., as they knelt to pray for Police Commissioner Eugene...

Apr. 5, 1963 - Ten more Negroes were arrested today when they sought service at lunch counters in two downtown drugstores in Birmingham,...

Apr. 4, 1963 - In Birmingham, Alabama, an attack by the city’s Negro community on racial segregation there continued today. Negro leaders...

Apr. 3, 1963 - In Greenwood, Mississippi today, police broke up a voter registration march led by comedian Dick Gregory and arrested all...

Apr. 2, 1963 - In Greenwood, Mississippi today, a policeman twisted the left arm of comedian Dick Gregory and hustled him across the...

Mar. 30, 1963 - The Federal Government stepped into a simmering civil rights controversy in Greenwood, Miss., today and sought a court...

Mar. 29, 1963 - Two leaders and six staff members of a Negro voter registration drive in Greenwood, Miss., drew maximum sentences today...

Mar. 28, 1963 - In Greenwood, Mississippi today, policemen set a snarling dog at the heels of 42 Negroes as they marched homeward after...

Mar. 27, 1963 - Policemen armed with shotguns and a police dog today broke up a Negro demonstration in Greenwood, Miss., staged to...

Mar. 25, 1963 - Fire damaged the Greenwood, Mississippi office of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee late last night. A...

Mar. 23, 1963 - Representative Adam Clayton Powell, Harlem Democrat, today called for a Negro boycott of the NAACP on the grounds the...