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Mar 3

Twins Integrate Spring Training Camp

Mar. 3, 1964 - The Minnesota Twins, pressured by civil rights groups to end segregated housing of players, moved their baseball training...

Mar 1

Senate Wrangling Continues on Civil Rights Bill

Mar. 1, 1964 - The leader of the Southern bloc in the Senate, Richard Russell (D-Ga.), said today that the public accommodations title of...

Dec 29, 2023

Time Magazine Names Dr. Martin Luther King Man of the Year

Dec. 29, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, the civil rights leader who became a symbol of the Negro revolution in 1963, has been...

Dec 5, 2023

Malcolm X May Be Replaced at Harlem Mosque

Dec. 5, 1963 - Malcolm X may soon be replaced as the minister of New York’s Nation of Islam Mosque No. 7, sources close to the Black...

Dec 3, 2023

President Johnson Meets with Dr. King

Dec. 3, 1963 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King spent 50 minutes at the White House today with President Johnson and said upon leaving:...

Dec 2, 2023

President Johnson Reinforces Commitment to Predecessor’s Civil Rights Program

Dec. 2, 1963 - President Johnson reinforced today his commitment to President Kennedy’s civil rights program. After meeting with...

Nov 27, 2023

🚨President Johnson Speaks to Joint Session of Congress

Nov. 27, 1963 - The first Southerner to become President since Woodrow Wilson called today for the “earliest possible passage” of a civil...

Nov 19, 2023

Eisenhower Speaks at Gettysburg

Nov. 19, 1963 - The national cemetery dedicated in Gettysburg, Pa., 100 years ago by Abraham Lincoln was rededicated today by former...

Nov 10, 2023

Negroes Appearing More on Television

Nov. 10, 1963 - The vigorous campaign to put more Negroes in front of television cameras has produced impressive results in recent...

Nov 8, 2023

NBC Cancels Blue-Gray Football over Negro Eligibility

Nov. 8, 1963 - NBC said today it had canceled a telecast of the Blue-Gray football game in Montgomery, Ala., on Dec. 28 after being...

Nov 5, 2023

Staunch Segregationist Elected to Replace Governor Barnett in Mississippi

Nov. 5, 1963 - Lieutenant Governor Paul Johnson Jr. (pictured), who has pledged to continue Governor Ross Barnett’s massive resistance to...

Nov 5, 2023

Auburn University Ordered to Admit Negro Student

Nov. 5, 1963 - A Federal judge ordered Auburn University today to admit its first Negro student in January and to accept students in the...

Oct 23, 2023

Dr. Bunche Criticizes Racists — Black and White

Oct. 23, 1963 - Dr. Ralph Bunche (pictured at the March on Washington in August), U.N. Under Secretary for Special Political Affairs, was...

Oct 17, 2023

Aged Minister Becomes First Negro Eligible to Vote in Louisiana Parish Since 1902

Oct. 17, 1963 - An elderly Baptist clergyman became today the first Negro eligible to vote in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, since...

Oct 14, 2023

Dr. King Threatens More Birmingham Demonstrations

Oct. 14, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King, bitterly denouncing Birmingham’s rejection of his desegregation demands, threatened tonight to...

Oct 7, 2023

Alabama State Troopers Rough Up Negroes Attempting to Register to Vote

Oct. 7, 1963 - Alabama state troopers and local officers in Selma, shouting and waving nightsticks, roughed up two Negroes and two news...

Sep 22, 2023

Civil Rights Protests Spread Throughout Nation

Sept. 22, 1963 - Ten thousand persons in New York City today cheered denunciations of President Kennedy and calls for civil disobedience...

Sep 17, 2023

Hundreds Pay Tribute to Bomb Victims in Birmingham

Sept. 17, 1963 - Hundreds of persons paid silent tribute today to the memory of a 14-year-old Negro girl who died during Sunday school...

Sep 16, 2023

President Kennedy Issues Statement on Birmingham Church Bombing

Sept. 16, 1963 - President Kennedy issued a statement today that suggested that Governor George Wallace of Alabama was responsible for...

Sep 15, 2023

🚨Four Negro Girls Murdered in Birmingham Church Bombing

Sept. 15, 1963 - Four Negro girls were blasted to death today and 23 persons injured in the daylight bombing of a church in Birmingham,...