1960s Timeline

May 22, 1963 - President Kennedy made it clear today he would use federal marshals or troops to desegregate the University of Alabama if...

May 21, 1963 - Federal District Judge Hobart H. Grooms told the University of Alabama today that it must admit two Negroes June 10....

May 20, 1963 - An estimated total of 420 more Negro demonstrators have been arrested and jailed in Greensboro, N.C., in the sixth day of...

May 20, 1963 - The Board of Education of Birmingham, Alabama today ordered the expulsion or suspension of some 1,100 Negro students who...

May 20, 1963 - Mahalia Jackson, the Gospel singer, hopes to raise $40,000 next Monday for the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King and his...

May 19, 1963 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace plainly indicated at a news conference yesterday that he would seek to withhold...

May 18, 1963 - President Kennedy flew back to Washington tonight after having been well received on a one-day tour of the South during...

May 17, 1963 - Five Negro pupils, described as followers of “Islamic teachings,” have been suspended from a public school in Elizabeth,...

May 16, 1963 - Malcolm X (pictured) attacked President Kennedy today for the manner in which he has dealt with the Birmingham crisis and...

May 15, 1963 - A television newsman was beaten and 11 store windows were broken in the aftermath of an anti-segregation rally last night...

May 14, 1963 - President Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy suggested to Alabama editors today that failure of the...

May 14, 1963 - Jackie Robinson (far right), the former baseball star, charged last night that plans were being formulated in Birmingham,...

May 13, 1963 - President Kennedy (pictured after last night’s televised statement) said today that any further disposition of Federal...

May 13, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. conducted a pool-hall pilgrimage today to keep the Negro population in Birmingham, Alabama calm...

May 13, 1963 - The Army has moved about 3,000 infantrymen, paratroopers, military policemen, and other troops into Alabama. The Pentagon...

May 12, 1963 - Alabama Governor George C. Wallace told President Kennedy tonight that “we have sufficient state and local forces” to...

🚨May 12, 1963 - President Kennedy tonight dispatched Federal troops to bases near Birmingham, Ala., for use if racial violence breaks...

May 12, 1963 - Dr. Martin Luther King flew to Birmingham, Ala., from Atlanta and announced that Negroes planned no protest demonstrations...

May 12, 1963 - Albert Boutwell, Birmingham’s Mayor-elect, whose authority has been challenged in the courts by the current three-member...

May 12, 1963 - The bombings of a Negro motel and an integration leader’s home (pictured top) touched off widespread rioting on the edge...