1960s Timeline

[AUDIO] Bob Moses of SNCC Speaks on Mississippi Freedom Summer

JFK: I Don’t Have Power to Defund Mississippi

Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett Frees Dying Negro Prisoner Many Say Was Framed

Leontyne Price Performs for Integrated Audience in Mississippi Hometown

Mississippi Senate Expresses “Utter Contempt” for Kennedy Administration

Ole Miss Student Harassed After Eating with Meredith, Leaves Campus

Meredith Faces Hostility on Mississippi Campus

Walker Arrested in Mississippi for Sedition and Insurrection

Sept. 30, 1962 - JFK Report to the Nation on Situation at University of Mississippi

Barnett Gives Up, Meredith to Finally Enroll

Barnett Cheered at Mississippi-Kentucky Football Game

Sept. 28, 1962 - Attorney William L. Higgs on Voting Rights in Mississippi

Sept. 26, 1962 - Bob Moses Interview on Challenges in Mississippi

Sept. 25, 1962 - Confrontation between Mississippi Gov. Barnett and John Doar of the Justice Dept.

Mississippi Newspaperman Burned in Effigy