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Jul 13, 2023

Brando Speaks on Discrimination in Film Industry

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...

Jul 12, 2023

Maryland Governor Tawes Sends National Guard Into Cambridge

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

Jul 12, 2023

Racial Violence in Cambridge, Maryland

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

Jul 11, 2023

Civil Rights March on Washington Planned for Aug. 28

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

Jul 10, 2023

Georgia-Born Secretary Rusk Has Icy Exchange with Senator Thurmond (D-S.C.)

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

Jul 8, 2023

Owner of Segregated Facility in Maryland Crushes Eggs on Demonstrator

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...

Jul 6, 2023

July 6, 1963 | (VIDEO) Martin Luther King Press Conference

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

Jul 6, 2023

Seeger, Dylan, Bikel Perform in Greenwood, Miss.

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...

Jul 6, 2023

James Meredith Gets Negative Reception at NAACP Convention

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...

Jul 5, 2023

Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ In the Wind” a Breakout Hit

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...

Jul 5, 2023

Clyde Kennard Is Dead

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

Jul 4, 2023

Civil Rights Demonstrators Arrested in Maryland

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

Jul 4, 2023

Mayor Daley Booed at NAACP Freedom March

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

Jul 2, 2023

Beckwith Indicted for Murder of Medgar Evers

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

Jul 1, 2023

RFK Pushes Administration’s Civil Rights Bill

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

Jun 30, 2023

Negro Actress Given Featured Role on CBS’s “East Side, West Side”

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

Jun 27, 2023

Zantzinger Convicted of Manslaughter in Caning Death of Negro Woman

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

Jun 26, 2023

Attorney General Makes Concession on Civil Rights Legislation

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

Jun 24, 2023

Jackson D.A. To Seek Death Penalty for Beckwith

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

Jun 23, 2023

MLK Speaks in Detroit

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