In Georgia, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., Faces Death Sentence
Jan. 6, 1962 - In Georgia’s Reidsville Prison, a 15-year-old Negro boy, Preston Cobb Jr., is under sentence of death for killing a...
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Jan 1, 2022
President Hails Roy Wilkins of NAACP
Jan. 1, 1962 - President Kennedy hailed Roy Wilkins (pictured center in 1959 with Martin Luther King Jr. and Thurgood Marshall) of the...
Dec 28, 2021
Justice Department Wants Louisiana Voting Law Struck Down
Dec. 28, 1961 - The Justice Department asked a Federal court today to strike down a Louisiana law requiring voters to pass a...
Dec 18, 2021
Nearly 300 Negro Demonstrators Arrested in New Orleans
Dec. 18, 1961 - Three hundred Negroes and a few whites tried to march on the State Office Building in New Orleans today. They were...
Dec 18, 2021
Dr. King Released from Georgia Prison
Dec. 18, 1961 - An agreement reached in Albany, Ga., paved the way for the release of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and about 300...
Dec 16, 2021
Dr. King, 264 other Negroes arrested in Albany, Ga.
Dec. 16, 1961 - The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., 264 other Negroes, and 1 white youth were arrested today as they marched on City...
Dec 15, 2021
Police Use Tear Gas to Break Up Negro Demonstration in Baton Rouge
Dec. 15, 1961 - The police used tear gas to break up demonstrations today by 1,500 Negroes in the main business district of Baton Rouge,...
Dec 15, 2021
Mississippi Negro Will Run for Congress, First Since Reconstruction
Dec. 15, 1961 - A 58-year-old Jackson Negro grocer said today he would oppose Representative John Bell Williams in the Fourth District...
Dec 14, 2021
Georgia National Guard Called Out After More Demonstrations in Albany
Dec. 14, 1961 - National Guardsmen were called out today as negotiators sought to resolve a crisis over mass arrests of Negro...
Dec 13, 2021
More Arrests in Albany, Ga. as Racial Tension Mounts
Dec. 13, 1961 - In Albany Ga., the police arrested 202 Negroes this evening during a demonstration at the City Hall as racial tension...
Dec 12, 2021
Mass Arrests of Negro Demonstrators in Albany, Georgia
Dec. 12, 1961 - Two hundred and sixty-seven young Negroes were arrested while marching and singing through downtown Albany, Ga., today....
Dec 11, 2021
Martin Luther King Addresses AFL-CIO Convention
Dec. 11, 1961 - Dr. Martin Luther King told organized labor today that it had “not adequately used its great power, its vision, and...
Dec 11, 2021
Supreme Court Voids Sit-In Convictions
Dec. 11, 1961 - The first convictions to reach the Supreme Court from the student sit-in campaign in the South were unanimously set aside...
Dec 9, 2021
Mississippi Newspaperman Burned in Effigy
Dec. 9, 1961 - Hodding Carter (pictured), Pulitzer Prize newspaper man, commented today that when he was burned in effigy in Glen Allan,...
Dec 7, 2021
Mississippi Negroes Arrested for Boycotting Downtown Merchants
Dec. 7, 1961 - Seven Negroes were arrested today in Clarksdale, Mississippi, on charges of “withholding trade” from downtown merchants....
Dec 1, 2021
Mob Menaces Freedom Riders, Attacks Newsmen in Mississippi
Dec. 1, 1961 - In McComb, Mississippi today, he police held back angry white mobs twice while six Freedom Riders achieved the first...
Nov 29, 2021
Freedom Riders Beaten in McComb, Mississippi
Nov. 29, 1961 - A mob of cursing whites, shouting “Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em!” set upon five Negro Freedom Riders today and drove them from the...
Nov 29, 2021
Mississippi Citizens Council Forming "Minutemen" Organizations
Nov. 29, 1961 - A Mississippi Citizens Council leader said today that several Southern communities were forming “minutemen” organizations...
Nov 11, 2021
McNamara Speaks in Atlanta Amidst Protests
Nov. 11, 1961 - Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara addressed a segregated audience in Atlanta this evening while Negroes and whites...
Nov 9, 2021
White Sox Purchase Hotel to Bypass Segregation in Florida
Nov. 9, 1961 - The Chicago White Sox erased any possible racial segregation problem in spring training today by purchasing the 117-room...
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