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Sep 11, 2023

Bull Connor Advises Segregationists

Sept. 11, 1963 - Eugene (Bull) Connor, former Police Commissioner of Birmingham, Ala., told segregationists in Little Rock, Ark., last...

Sep 9, 2023

Wallace Accelerates Federal-State Showdown over School Integration

Sept. 9, 1963 - Governor George Wallace of Alabama replaced his state policemen with National Guard troops tonight and moved towards a...

Sep 9, 2023

Robert Kennedy Interviewed on NBC-TV

Sept. 9, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy conceded today that President Kennedy’s drive to pass civil rights legislation is...

Sep 6, 2023

White Georgian Who Married Negro Woman Speaks Out

Sept. 6, 1963 - Walter Stovall (right), a white Georgian who married Charlayne Hunter (left), the first Negro woman to graduate from the...

Sep 5, 2023

Integration Leader’s Home Bombed in Birmingham

Sept. 5, 1963 - A bomb rocked the home of an integration leader last night in Birmingham, Ala., following the peaceful registration of...

Sep 3, 2023

RFK: We’ll Use Troops in Alabama if Necessary

Sept. 3, 1963 - The Government made clear today that Federal troops or marshals would be used if necessary in the latest Alabama school...

Sep 3, 2023

Georgia A.G.: This State Doesn’t Recognize Intermarriage

Sept. 3, 1963 - State Attorney General Eugene Cook said today that Georgia did not recognize the marriage of a Negro female graduate and...

Sep 3, 2023

Most Southern Schools Integrate Peacefully

Sept. 3, 1963 - Negro students entered white public schools today in many cities of the South. In most places, integration came without...

Sep 2, 2023

JFK: Civil Rights Could Hurt Reelection Chances

Sept. 2, 1963 - President Kennedy admitted today that the civil rights situation will be an important subject in the 1964 Presidential...

Sep 2, 2023

First Negro to Graduate University of Georgia Marries White Man

Sept. 2, 1963 - The first Negro woman to enter and graduate from the University of Georgia disclosed today she had married a white...

Sep 2, 2023

Wallace Prevents Desegregation of Alabama Schools

Sept. 2, 1963 - Governor George C. Wallace prevented today the start of public school desegregation in Alabama by sealing off Tuskegee...

Sep 2, 2023

Racial Violence in Plaquemine, Louisiana

Sept. 2, 1963 - In Plaquemine, Louisiana last night, state police on horseback and deputies dispersed an angry crowd of 1,000 Negroes...

Aug 31, 2023

MLK: We Must Double Negro Vote

Aug. 31, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King (pictured left on Wednesday) said today that the leaders of the civil rights movement would now...

Aug 28, 2023

Dr. King Shines at Washington March

Aug. 28, 1963 - At today’s massive march on Washington, there was one man who touched and ignited the vast multitude most deeply: the...

Aug 28, 2023

🚨Hundreds of Thousands Demonstrate for Civil Rights in D.C.

Aug. 28, 1963 - More than 200,000 Americans, most of them Negroes but many of them white, demonstrated in Washington, D.C. today for a...

Aug 28, 2023

Zantzinger Sentenced for Fatal Caning of Barmaid

Aug. 28, 1963 - William Zantzinger, 24-year-old tobacco farmer, was sentenced today to six months in prison for fatally caning a Hattie...

Aug 27, 2023

Tens of Thousands Arrive for D.C. March

Aug. 27, 1963 - A vanguard of tens of thousands of Americans arrived tonight for the civil rights march on Washington D.C. The mass...

Aug 27, 2023

W.E.B. DuBois Is Dead

Aug. 27, 1963 - W.E.B. DuBois (left in 1958), the American Negro philosopher and writer, who settled in Ghana a few years ago, died...

Aug 23, 2023

Brando: Racial Trouble in “New York, West, East, and South”

Aug. 23, 1963 - Four movie actors led by Marlon Brando defended their right to help fight for racial equality in the South today, but...

Aug 22, 2023

Hollywood Actors Arrive in Gadsden, Alabama to Bolster Desegregation Drive

Aug. 22, 1963 - Actors Paul Newman, Marlon Brando Anthony Franciosa, and William Frye arrived in Gadsden, Alabama, tonight to bolster a...