1960s Timeline

July 13, 1963 - Actor Marlon Brando (pictured at a sit-in in Sacramento last month) told a civil rights meeting in Los Angeles last night...

July 12, 1963 - Maryland Governor J. Millard Tawes sent 425 rifle-carrying National Guard troops into the racially explosive Eastern...

July 12, 1963 - Three Maryland National Guardsmen were shot early today in downtown Cambridge as a running gun battle between whites and...

July 11, 1963 - Negro leaders of a scheduled civil rights march in Washington Aug. 28 conferred with D.C. police officials today on plans...

July 10, 1963 - Dean Rusk (left), who rose from a rural Georgia background to become Secretary of State, did battle today with Senator...

July 8, 1963 - A sit-in this afternoon in Cambridge, Md., brought the first brief skirmish and flurry of physical action in 25 days in...

July 6, 1963 - Martin Luther King Jr. was interviewed last night by four journalists for “Press Conference U.S.A.,” a U.S. Information...

July 6, 1963 - Three Northern folk singers led by Pete Seeger brought a folk-song festival to the Deep South this evening. They sang in...

July 6, 1963 - James Meredith, a hero to his race less than a year ago, today wept “my first tears since I was a child” over the...

July 5, 1963 - The racial crisis in the South has become a theme of major importance for folk singers of the North. A concert this...

July 5, 1963 - Clyde Kennard, a Negro who once tried unsuccessfully to enter an all-white college in Mississippi, died last night at the...

July 4, 1963 - Police today arrested the Rev. Dr. Eugene Carson Blake (pictured stepping into a police van), top official of the...

July 4, 1963 - Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley (pictured) was booed off the speakers’ stand today in an uproarious climax to a Freedom...

July 2, 1963 - The Hinds County, Miss., grand jury indicted Byron de la Beckwith (pictured) today for the murder of Medgar Evers, Negro...

July 1, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy asked the Senate today to pass a strong public accommodations bill in order to root out...

June 30, 1963 - Cicely Tyson (pictured left with George C. Scott and Elizabeth Wilson) has been given a featured role in “East Side, West...

June 27, 1963 - A three-judge court convicted William Zantzinger (pictured in February) of manslaughter today in connection with the...

June 26, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy said today the Administration would be willing to exempt small stores and tourist...

June 24, 1963 - District Attorney William Waller of Jackson, Miss., said today he would seek the death penalty for the man charged with...

June 23, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King tonight told a cheering throng of Negro demonstrators the American Negro wants freedom “here and...