1960s Timeline

June 4, 1963 - President Kennedy today ordered a quick end to discrimination on all federal construction jobs. The surprise action set...

June 3, 1963 - Comedian Dick Gregory’s 2-month-old son died today despite efforts of the child’s mother and neighbors to administer...

June 2, 1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace stated today that Negroes are treated far worse in the North than in the South. The...

June 1, 1963 - Roy Wilkins (center), 61, executive secretary of the NAACP, was arrested in Jackson, Miss. today for picketing the F.W....

June 1, 1963 - Governor George Wallace said today that not even a Federal Court injunction would deter him from attempting to block...

May 31, 1963 - About 600 Negro children, some of them of grade school age, were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi tonight and hauled to...

May 31, 1963 - A former police officer in Jackson, Mississippi was sentenced to 30 days in jail and was fined $100 in the Mississippi...

May 30, 1963 - Policemen used tear gas tonight to disperse about 150 Negro youths marching through Tallahassee, Fla., and shouting...

May 30, 1963 - Vice President Johnson declared today that whites and Negroes must work together “to lead the way through this moment of...

May 29, 1963 - Nineteen integrationists were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi today in a series of demonstrations in front of downtown...

May 29, 1963 - Medgar Evers (pictured), head of the NAACP chapter in Jackson, Mississippi, was sharply critical of Mayor Allen Thompson...

May 28, 1963 - Two Negroes and a white college professor were assaulted today in a sit-in demonstration that marked the start of a drive...

May 27, 1963 - A heavily guarded Governor George Wallace eluded U.S. marshals today, and legal papers formally notifying the Alabama...

May 27, 1963 - The Black Muslims (pictured) have reached the peak of their success and will steadily decline throughout the U.S. over the...

May 27, 1963 - The Kennedy Administration tried today to persuade Southern theater owners to desegregate their theaters voluntarily. A...

May 25, 1963 - Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy is reported to have had a heated discussion with a group of prominent Negroes yesterday...

May 24, 1963 - Los Angeles has a racial problem potentially as dangerous as the South’s, the Reverend Wyatt T. Walker (pictured center...

May 23, 1963 - The Alabama State Supreme Court unanimously upheld today the claim to office of a new city government pledged to resolve...

May 22, 1963 - A Federal court tonight ordered education officials in Birmingham, Alabama to reinstate 1,100 Negro students who had been...

May 22, 1963 - Following are the highlights of President Kennedy’s news conference today: Alabama — The President said he hoped the...