1960s Timeline

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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