1960s Timeline

June 12, 1963 - President Kennedy, “appalled by the barbarity” of the assassination of a top NAACP integration leader in Jackson, Miss....

June 12, 1963 - Medgar Evers, a native of Decatur, Miss., and an Army veteran of World War II who was murdered this morning, left a mass...

June 12, 1963 - Two Negro students moved through the bustle of the first day of classes at the University of Alabama today without escort...

June 12, 1963 - A sniper lying in ambush shot and fatally wounded a Negro civil rights leader in Jackson, Mississippi early today. The...

June 12, 1963 - President Kennedy’s speech last night on racial problems in the nation marked the seventh time in 28 months that the...

June 11, 1963 - President Kennedy told the nation tonight it faced a “moral crisis” as a result of the rising tide of Negro discontent....

June 11, 1963 - Vivian J. Malone (pictured) and James A. Hood, the two Negro students who entered the University of Alabama today, got a...

June 11, 1963 - Governor George Wallace stepped aside today when confronted by federalized National Guard troops and permitted two...

June 10, 1963 - About 40 Negro youngsters, staging the third anti-segregation protest of the day in Danville, Va., were dispersed by fire...

June 10, 1963 - An all-white jury found four Black Muslims guilty today of interfering with the police during a fatal riot in Los Angeles...

June 10, 1963 - President Kennedy appealed to Governor George Wallace today to stay away from the campus of the University of Alabama. In...

June 9, 1963 - Here is a clip from President Kennedy’s address today at the U.S. Conference of Mayors held at the Hawaiian Village Hotel...

June 9, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King was the featured guest today on David Susskind's interview program, "Open End," on New York's...

June 9, 1963 - President Kennedy told the National Conference of Mayors in Honolulu today that in “a moment of moral and constitutional...

June 9, 1963 - The civil rights approach of the Kennedy Administration as compared with that of the Eisenhower Administration has merely...

June 8, 1963 - Governor George Wallace took steps today to defy Federal court desegregation orders and yet avoid violence at the...

June 6, 1963 - President Kennedy spoke out sharply today against racial segregation and education deficiencies he said were damaging the...

June 6, 1963 - James Meredith returned quietly today to the campus of the University of Mississippi to register for his third, and...

June 5, 1963 - A second Negro entered the University of Mississippi today, but there was neither interference from Governor Ross Barnett...

June 5, 1963 - Malcolm X, the Eastern leader of the Black Muslim movement, charged last night that the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King’s...