1960s Timeline

Sept. 19, 1962 - Governor Ross R. Barnett, Mississippi legislators, and the state courts moved today to block the desegregation of the...

Sept. 17, 1962 - A fourth Negro church burned to the ground today in Georgia, and a large-scale investigation by Federal and state...

Sept. 15, 1962 - Protestant and Jewish clergymen and Roman Catholic laymen began forming “nonviolent army” units last week for a ready...

Sept. 13, 1962 - Gov. Ross R. Barnett invoked the doctrine of “interposition” tonight in a move to block the enrollment of a Negro at the...

Sept. 13, 1962 - At today's press conference, President Kennedy strongly denounced the burning of two Negro churches in Georgia last...

Sept. 13, 1962 - About $11,000 has been donated to rebuild the two Negro churches destroyed by fire near Albany, Ga. The Atlanta...

Sept. 13, 1962 - In New York City last night, Dr. Martin Luther King spoke at a dinner marking the 100th anniversary of the signing of...

Sept. 13, 1962 - The burning of churches in Georgia, apparently to discourage voter-registration rallies, provoked President Kennedy...

Sept. 12, 1962 - At a dinner in New York marking the 100th anniversary of the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Governor Nelson...

Sept. 12, 1962 - Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured with Cardinal Spellman and Governor Rockefeller) decried tonight the pace of civil...

Sept. 10, 1962 - Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black (pictured right with Chief Justice Earl Warren in 1954) ruled today that the...

Sept. 9, 1962 - Sheriff Z.T. Mathews of Terrell County, Ga., where two Negro churches were destroyed by fire this morning, said that...

Sept. 9, 1962 - Two Negro churches in Georgia, one of them the scene of weekly voter registration rallies, were destroyed by fire early...

Sept. 8, 1962 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy hailed today the peaceful desegregation of many Southern schools this week. He spoke...

Sept. 4, 1962 - Roman Catholic schools in New Orleans lowered racial barriers today for the first time in 67 years. The desegregation was...

Sept. 4, 1962 - A group of Negroes attempting to integrate the schools in Albany, Ga., met police barricades and a crudely printed sign...

Sept. 3, 1962 - Ku Klux Klansmen massed in a pasture near Albany, Ga., tonight, burned a cross, cheered racist oratory, and swatted...

Sept. 2, 1962 - The Ku Klux Klan burned crosses in at least 14 north Louisiana towns and at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge late last...

Aug. 28, 1962 - The House Rules Committee formally recommended today that the House Committee on Un-American Activities investigate the...

Aug. 28, 1962 - The Justice Department started a broad legal effort today to open the voting rolls in Mississippi to Negroes. A suit...