1960s Timeline

Mar. 9, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy appealed to organized labor today to strike race discrimination from its ranks — “and...

Mar. 6, 1963 - Former Major General Edwin A. Walker (pictured right) said today the integration riots at the University of Mississippi...

Mar. 6, 1963 - A charge by Governor Rockefeller that President Kennedy had appointed “segregationist” judges in the South was rejected by...

Mar. 1, 1963 - The shooting of a 20-year-old civil rights worker sparked a vow by the South’s integration leaders today to sign up every...

Feb. 28, 1963 - Alderman Benjamin F. Lewis, one of the most powerful Negro politicians in Chicago, was discovered brutally murdered in...

Feb. 28, 1963 - President Kennedy, in a sweeping civil rights message, called today for new measures to protect Negro rights in voting,...

Feb. 27, 1963 - The Black Muslims are stepping up their longtime campaign for separation of the races in this country. The most outspoken...

Feb. 26, 1963 - Republicans challenged House Democrats today to discipline their colleague from Harlem, Rep. Adam Clayton Powell...

Feb. 15, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the enrollment of Harvey Gantt (pictured) without incident at Clemson...

Feb. 9, 1963 - A statewide alarm was broadcast today for the arrest of a socially prominent Southern Maryland tobacco farmer charged with...

Jan. 30, 1963 - Now that Wendell Franklin has been working a few months as second assistant director of “The Greatest Story Ever Told,”...

Jan. 30, 1963 - James Meredith (pictured) said today he would return to the University of Mississippi for the spring semester. The...

Jan. 29, 1963 - Governor Ross Barnett freed from prison today a Negro who once attempted to enter the all-white University of Southern...

Jan. 28, 1963 - Leontyne Price (pictured) sang before an applauding integrated audience in her Mississippi hometown last night to raise...

Jan. 28, 1963 - Desegregation came without incident today to South Carolina’s educational system as Clemson College enrolled its first...

Jan. 24, 1963 - A white University of Mississippi student who befriended James Meredith, a Negro student, said today that someone poured...

Jan. 24, 1963 - President Kennedy said today he would be sorry if James Meredith (pictured last year), a Negro student, decided to leave...

Jan. 22, 1963 - Negro James Meredith packed up his bags and departed from the University of Mississippi campus today after concluding his...

Jan. 21, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (left) said today that even if James Meredith (right) left the University of...

Jan. 16, 1963 - Clemson College of South Carolina was ordered today to admit a Negro student — the first at Clemson or any white school...